Noun: baintreach
Gender: Fem
Forms without Article
| Singular Nominative | baintreach |
| Singular Genitive | baintrí |
| Plural Nominative | baintreacha |
| Plural Genitive | baintreach |
Forms with Article
| Singular Nominative | an bhaintreach |
| Singular Genitive | na baintrí |
| Plural Nominative | na baintreacha |
| Plural Genitive | na mbaintreach |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like baintreach
baintreach,
brídeach,
báirseach,
cailleach,
cláirseach,
crúibíneach,
máithreach,
praiseach,
saileach,
seisreach,
tairseach,
toirneach,
Etymology
1. PIE word
2. *gʷḗn
3. From Middle Irish baintrebthach, originally “landlady”, from ban- (combining form of ben (“woman”)) + trebthach (“householder”), from Old Irish treb (“farm, holding”), from Proto-Celtic *trebā (“settlement”) (compare Welsh tref (“town”)), from Proto-Indo-European *treb- (“settlement”) (compare Old English þorp (“village”), Lithuanian troba (“house”)). Replaced now archaic feadhbh, from Old Irish fedb. See: Old English Nouns '
þorp'.
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