acaointeach

Irish

Alternative forms

• acaoineach, acmhainneach

Etymology

From Old Irish accaíntech (“plaintive, querulous, complaining”), from accaíned (“act of complaining; complaint, lamentation”). By surface analysis, acaoineadh, acaointe (“doleful crying; complaint, lamentation”) +‎ -ach.

Adjective

acaointeach (genitive singular masculine acaointigh, genitive singular feminine acaointí, plural acaointeacha, comparative acaointí)

1. plaintive, doleful

Declension

Declension of acaointeach

Positive	singular		plural
	masculine	feminine	strong noun	weak noun
nominative	acaointeach	acaointeach	acaointeacha
vocative	acaointigh		acaointeacha
genitive		acaointí	acaointeacha	acaointeach
dative	acaointeach	acaointeach; acaointigh (archaic)	acaointeacha
Comparative	níos acaointí
Superlative	is acaointí

Related terms

• acaoineadh m (“doleful crying; complaint, lamentation”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of acaointeach

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
acaointeach	n-acaointeach	hacaointeach	not applicable

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

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “acaointeach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 accaíntech”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language