cnocach

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish cnoccach (“hilly”). By surface analysis, cnoc +‎ -ach.

Adjective

cnocach (genitive singular masculine cnocaigh, genitive singular feminine cnocaí, plural cnocacha, comparative cnocaí)

  1. hilly

Declension
Declension of cnocach
Singular Plural (m/f)
Positive Masculine Feminine (strong noun) (weak noun)
Nominative cnocach chnocach cnocacha;
chnocacha²
Vocative chnocaigh cnocacha
Genitive cnocaí cnocacha cnocach
Dative cnocach;
chnocach¹		 chnocach;
chnocaigh (archaic)		 cnocacha;
chnocacha²
Comparative níos cnocaí
Superlative is cnocaí

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

Noun

cnocach m (genitive singular cnocaigh, nominative plural cnocaigh)

  1. a hilly place
    • c. 1634, Geoffrey Keating, Foras Feasa ar Éirinn:
      Ard na nGeimhleach ré ráidhtear an Chnocach aniú
      "Ard na nGeaimhleach [High place of the Prisoners], which is now called An Chnocach [The Hilly Place])"

Declension
Declension of cnocach

First declension

Bare forms:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative cnocach cnocaigh
Vocative a chnocaigh a chnocacha
Genitive cnocaigh cnocach
Dative cnocach cnocaigh

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an cnocach na cnocaigh
Genitive an chnocaigh na gcnocach
Dative leis an gcnocach

don chnocach

 leis na cnocaigh

Mutation
Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
cnocach chnocach gcnocach
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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