adharcach – Irish adjective declension

Irish adjective forms of adharcach

Adjective: adharcach
Declension: 1
Singular Nominativeadharcach
Singular Genitive Masc.adharcaigh
Singular Genitive Fem.adharcaí
Plural Nominativeadharcacha

Comparative

níos adharcaí
ní b'adharcaí

Superlative

is adharcaí
ab adharcaí

Etymology

From Middle Irish adarcach. By surface analysis, adharc (“horn”) + -ach (adjectival suffix). The sense ‘sexually aroused’ is a semantic loan from English horny.

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