oirmhinneach

Irish

Alternative forms

airmhidneach
oirmhidneach

Etymology

From Old Irish airmitnech (“honoured, respected”).

Adjective

oirmhinneach (genitive singular masculine oirmhinnigh, genitive singular feminine oirmhinní, plural oirmhinneacha, comparative oirmhinní)

reverend

Declension

Declension of oirmhinneach

Positive	Masculine	Feminine	(strong noun)	(weak noun)
	Singular		Plural (m/f)
Nominative	oirmhinneach	oirmhinneach	oirmhinneacha
Vocative	oirmhinnigh	oirmhinneach	oirmhinneacha
Genitive	oirmhinnigh	oirmhinní	oirmhinneacha	oirmhinneach
Dative	oirmhinneach	oirmhinneach; oirmhinnigh (archaic)	oirmhinneacha
Comparative	níos oirmhinní
Superlative	is oirmhinní

Noun

oirmhinneach m (genitive singular oirmhinnigh, nominative plural oirmhinnigh)

(ecclesiastical, as form of address, title) reverence

Declension

Declension of oirmhinneach

First declension

Bare forms:

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	oirmhinneach	oirmhinnigh
Vocative	a oirmhinnigh	a oirmhinneacha
Genitive	oirmhinnigh	oirmhinneach
Dative	oirmhinneach	oirmhinnigh

Forms with the definite article:

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	an t-oirmhinneach	na hoirmhinnigh
Genitive	an oirmhinnigh	na n-oirmhinneach
Dative	leis an oirmhinneach don oirmhinneach	leis na hoirmhinnigh

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
oirmhinneach	n-oirmhinneach	hoirmhinneach	not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

"oirmhinneach" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
“airmitnech” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

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