beathaiste

Irish

Adjective

beathaiste

  1. Ulster form of beathaithe (“well-fed”)
    • 1894 March, Peadar Mac Fionnlaoigh, “An rí nach robh le fagháil bháis”, in Irisleabhar na Gaedhilge, volume 1:5, Dublin: Gaelic Union, pages 185–88:
      Nuair a chuaidh sé giobhta eile, chonnaic sé cuibhreann talmhan ⁊ scota mór caorach ann, ⁊ bhí siad ramhar, feolmhar, beathaiste, gidh nach robh an féar acht go han-lom.
      When he went a little farther, he saw a piece of ground with a flock of sheep in it, and they were fat, fleshy, and well-fed, though the grass was very bare.

Declension

Declension of beathaiste
Positive singular plural
masculine feminine strong noun weak noun
nominative beathaiste bheathaiste beathaiste;
bheathaiste2
vocative bheathaiste beathaiste
genitive beathaiste beathaiste beathaiste
dative beathaiste;
bheathaiste1 		bheathaiste beathaiste;
bheathaiste2
Comparative níos beathaiste
Superlative is beathaiste

1 When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
2 When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

Mutation

Mutated forms of beathaiste
radical lenition eclipsis
beathaiste bheathaiste mbeathaiste

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

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