peacach

Irish

From Old Irish pecthach, peccach, pecach (“sinful, committing sin; sinner”), from peccad, pecad (“sin”) (modern peaca).

peacach (genitive singular masculine peacaigh, genitive singular feminine peacaí, plural peacacha, comparative peacaí)

Declension of peacach

Positive	Masculine	Feminine	(strong noun)	(weak noun)
	Singular		Plural (m/f)
Nominative	peacach	pheacach	peacacha; pheacacha²
Vocative	pheacaigh	pheacach	peacacha
Genitive	pheacaigh	peacaí	peacacha	peacach
Dative	peacach; pheacach¹	pheacach; pheacaigh (archaic)	peacacha; pheacacha²
Comparative	níos peacaí
Superlative	is peacaí

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

peacach m (genitive singular peacaigh, nominative plural peacaigh)

Declension of peacach

Bare forms:

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	an peacach	na peacaigh
Genitive	an pheacaigh	na bpeacach
Dative	leis an bpeacach don pheacach	leis na peacaigh

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
peacach	pheacach	bpeacach
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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

From Old Irish pecthach, peccach, pecach (“sinful, committing sin; sinner”), from peccad, pecad (“sin”).

peacach m (genitive singular peacaich, plural peacaich)

peacach

Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical	Lenition
peacach	pheacach
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Edward Dwelly (1911) “peacach”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎^[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “pecthach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language