gearrchoileach

Irish

Etymology

gearr- (“small”) +‎ coileach (“cock, rooster”)

Noun

gearrchoileach m (genitive singular gearrchoiligh, nominative plural gearrchoiligh)

1. bantam (rooster)

Declension

Declension of gearrchoileach (first declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative gearrchoileach gearrchoiligh vocative a ghearrchoiligh a ghearrchoileacha genitive gearrchoiligh gearrchoileach dative gearrchoileach gearrchoiligh forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an gearrchoileach na gearrchoiligh genitive an ghearrchoiligh na ngearrchoileach dative leis an ngearrchoileach don ghearrchoileach leis na gearrchoiligh

Mutation

Mutated forms of gearrchoileach

radical	lenition	eclipsis
gearrchoileach	ghearrchoileach	ngearrchoileach

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

References

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “gearrchoileach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN