aghaidhbhéasach
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Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From aghaidh (“face”) + béasach (“well-behaved; mannerly, polite”).
Adjective
[edit]aghaidhbhéasach (genitive singular masculine aghaidhbhéasaigh, genitive singular feminine aghaidhbhéasaí, plural aghaidhbhéasacha, comparative aghaidhbhéasaí)
- civil-looking
Declension
[edit]Declension of aghaidhbhéasach
| Singular | Plural (m/f) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Positive | Masculine | Feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
| Nominative | aghaidhbhéasach | aghaidhbhéasach | aghaidhbhéasacha | |
| Vocative | aghaidhbhéasaigh | aghaidhbhéasacha | ||
| Genitive | aghaidhbhéasaí | aghaidhbhéasacha | aghaidhbhéasach | |
| Dative | aghaidhbhéasach | aghaidhbhéasach; aghaidhbhéasaigh (archaic) |
aghaidhbhéasacha | |
| Comparative | níos aghaidhbhéasaí | |||
| Superlative | is aghaidhbhéasaí | |||
Mutation
[edit]| Irish mutation | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Radical | Eclipsis | with h-prothesis | with t-prothesis |
| aghaidhbhéasach | n-aghaidhbhéasach | haghaidhbhéasach | not applicable |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | |||
Further reading
[edit]- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “aghaidhbhéasach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN