ainbhreitheach

Irish

Alternative forms

• ainbhreathach

Etymology

From Old Irish ainbrethach (“giving wrong judgement, unjust, injudicious”, adjective), from ainbreith (“wrong or unjust judgement”), from breith (“act of judging, deciding; judgment, legal ruling, interpretation”). By surface analysis, ainbhreith (“unjust judgment”) +‎ -ach.

Adjective

ainbhreitheach (genitive singular masculine ainbhreithigh, genitive singular feminine ainbhreithí, plural ainbhreitheacha, comparative ainbhreithí)

1. (law, of verdict) perverse

Declension

Declension of ainbhreitheach

Positive	singular		plural
	masculine	feminine	strong noun	weak noun
nominative	ainbhreitheach	ainbhreitheach	ainbhreitheacha
vocative	ainbhreithigh		ainbhreitheacha
genitive		ainbhreithí	ainbhreitheacha	ainbhreitheach
dative	ainbhreitheach	ainbhreitheach; ainbhreithigh (archaic)	ainbhreitheacha
Comparative	níos ainbhreithí
Superlative	is ainbhreithí

Mutation

Mutated forms of ainbhreitheach

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
ainbhreitheach	n-ainbhreitheach	hainbhreitheach	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), “ainbhreitheach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “ainbrethach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language