fo-bhailteach

Irish

Etymology

From fo-bhailte (“suburbs; sub-townlands”) +‎ -ach (adjectival suffix).

Adjective

fo-bhailteach (genitive singular masculine fo-bhailtigh, genitive singular feminine fo-bhailtí, plural fo-bhailteacha, comparative fo-bhailtí)

  1. suburban
    Synonyms: bruachbhailteach, fo-uirbeach

Declension
Declension of fo-bhailteach
Singular Plural (m/f)
Positive Masculine Feminine (strong noun) (weak noun)
Nominative fo-bhailteach fho-bhailteach fo-bhailteacha;
fho-bhailteacha²
Vocative fho-bhailtigh fo-bhailteacha
Genitive fo-bhailtí fo-bhailteacha fo-bhailteach
Dative fo-bhailteach;
fho-bhailteach¹		 fho-bhailteach;
fho-bhailtigh (archaic)		 fo-bhailteacha;
fho-bhailteacha²
Comparative níos fo-bhailtí
Superlative is fo-bhailtí

¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

Noun

fo-bhailteach m (genitive singular fo-bhailtigh, nominative plural fo-bhailtigh)

  1. suburbanite
    Synonym: bruachbhailteach

Declension
Declension of fo-bhailteach

First declension

Bare forms:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative fo-bhailteach fo-bhailtigh
Vocative a fho-bhailtigh a fho-bhailteacha
Genitive fo-bhailtigh fo-bhailteach
Dative fo-bhailteach fo-bhailtigh

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an fo-bhailteach na fo-bhailtigh
Genitive an fho-bhailtigh na bhfo-bhailteach
Dative leis an bhfo-bhailteach

don fho-bhailteach

 leis na fo-bhailtigh

Mutation
Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
fo-bhailteach fho-bhailteach bhfo-bhailteach
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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Further reading
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