barrchaol

Irish

Etymology

From barr- (“-tipped”) +‎ caol (“thin, slender”).

Adjective

barrchaol (genitive singular masculine barrchaoil, genitive singular feminine barrchaoile, plural barrchaola, comparative barrchaoile)

  1. tapering

Declension

Declension of barrchaol
Positive singular plural
masculine feminine strong noun weak noun
nominative barrchaol bharrchaol barrchaola;
bharrchaola2
vocative bharrchaoil barrchaola
genitive barrchaoile barrchaola barrchaol
dative barrchaol;
bharrchaol1 		bharrchaol;
bharrchaoil (archaic) 		barrchaola;
bharrchaola2
Comparative níos barrchaoile
Superlative is barrchaoile

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

Mutation

Mutated forms of barrchaol
radical lenition eclipsis
barrchaol bharrchaol mbarrchaol

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

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