carthanach
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Irish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle Irish carthanach.[2] By surface analysis, carthain + -ach.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]carthanach (genitive singular masculine carthanaigh, genitive singular feminine carthanaí)
- kind, friendly, charitable
- 1894 March, Peadar Mac Fionnlaoigh, “An rí nach robh le fagháil bháis”, in Irisleabhar na Gaedhilge, volume 1:5, Dublin: Gaelic Union, pages 185–88:
- Sé sin deagh-dhaoine a bhí maith, carthanach le chéile ar an tsaoghal so, ⁊ beidh an gléas maith sin orra go lá an bhreitheamhnais.
- They are good people who were kind and friendly towards each other in this world, and they will be in that happy state till the day of judgment.
Declension
[edit]Declension of carthanach
Singular | Plural (m/f) | |||
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Positive | Masculine | Feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
Nominative | carthanach | charthanach | carthanach; charthanach² | |
Vocative | charthanaigh | carthanach | ||
Genitive | carthanaí | carthanach | carthanach | |
Dative | carthanach; charthanach¹ |
charthanach; charthanaigh (archaic) |
carthanach; charthanach² | |
Comparative | níos carthanaí | |||
Superlative | is carthanaí |
¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Yola: courmach
Mutation
[edit]Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
carthanach | charthanach | gcarthanach |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References
[edit]- ^ “carthanach”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “carthanach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 49
Further reading
[edit]- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “carṫannaċ”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 120
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “carthanach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN