carthanach

Irish

Alternative forms
  • carantach, carántach, carthannach, carthanúil[1]

Etymology

From Middle Irish carthanach.[2] By surface analysis, carthain +‎ -ach.

Pronunciation

Adjective

carthanach (genitive singular masculine carthanaigh, genitive singular feminine carthanaí)

  1. 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
Declension of carthanach
Singular Plural (m/f)
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

Descendants
  • → Yola: courmach

Mutation
Irish mutation
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
  1. “carthanach”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “carthanach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 49

Further reading
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