carthanach

Irish

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

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 of *carthanach*
	singular		plural (m/f)
Positive	masculine	feminine	(strong noun)	(weak noun)
nominative	carthanach	charthanach	carthanach; charthanach²
vocative	charthanaigh	charthanach	carthanach
genitive	charthanaigh	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.

Mutated forms of *carthanach*
radical	lenition	eclipsis
carthanach	charthanach	gcarthanach

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

^ “carthanach”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “carthanach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 49