gartach

Irish

Etymology 1

From gart (“generosity, hospitality, magnanimity”) +‎ -ach (adjectival suffix).

Adjective

gartach (genitive singular masculine gartaigh, genitive singular feminine gartaí, plural gartacha, comparative gartaí)

  1. (literary) generous, hospitable, magnanimous

Etymology 2

From garta (“wart”) +‎ -ach (adjectival suffix).

Adjective

gartach (genitive singular masculine gartaigh, genitive singular feminine gartaí, plural gartacha, comparative gartaí)

  1. warty; rough(-skinned)

Declension

Declension of gartach
Positive singular plural
masculine feminine strong noun weak noun
nominative gartach ghartach gartacha;
ghartacha2
vocative ghartaigh gartacha
genitive gartaí gartacha gartach
dative gartach;
ghartach1 		ghartach;
ghartaigh (archaic) 		gartacha;
ghartacha2
Comparative níos gartaí
Superlative is gartaí

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 gartach
radical lenition eclipsis
gartach ghartach ngartach

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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