Béarlach
Irish
Adjective
Béarlach (genitive singular masculine Béarlaigh, genitive singular feminine Béarlaí, plural Béarlacha, not comparable)
Usage notes
Not found in dictionaries of the modern language, and apparently rare even in the early modern period. Usually Béarla is used attributively in the genitive when an adjective meaning “pertaining to the English language” is needed.
Declension
Declension of Béarlach
| Singular | Plural (m/f) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Positive | Masculine | Feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
| Nominative | Béarlach | Bhéarlach | Béarlacha; Bhéarlacha² | |
| Vocative | Bhéarlaigh | Béarlacha | ||
| Genitive | Béarlaí | Béarlacha | Béarlach | |
| Dative | Béarlach; Bhéarlach¹ |
Bhéarlach; Bhéarlaigh (archaic) |
Béarlacha; Bhéarlacha² | |
| Comparative | (not comparable) | |||
| Superlative | (not comparable) | |||
¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.
Mutation
| Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| Béarlach | Bhéarlach | mBéarlach |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
Further reading
- “Béarlach”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “bérlach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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