gearbach

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish gerbach (“scabby, mangy”); synchronically, gearb (“scab, mange”) +‎ -ach.

Adjective

gearbach (genitive singular masculine gearbaigh, genitive singular feminine gearbaí, plural gearbacha, comparative gearbaí)

scabby, mangy

Declension

Declension of gearbach

Positive	Masculine	Feminine	(strong noun)	(weak noun)
	Singular		Plural (m/f)
Nominative	gearbach	ghearbach	gearbacha; ghearbacha²
Vocative	ghearbaigh	ghearbach	gearbacha
Genitive	ghearbaigh	gearbaí	gearbacha	gearbach
Dative	gearbach; ghearbach¹	ghearbach; ghearbaigh (archaic)	gearbacha; ghearbacha²
Comparative	níos gearbaí
Superlative	is gearbaí

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

Noun

gearbach m (genitive singular gearbaigh)

(horticulture) scab

Declension

Declension of gearbach

First declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun)

Case	Singular
Nominative	gearbach
Vocative	a ghearbaigh
Genitive	gearbaigh
Dative	gearbach

Forms with the definite article:

Case	Singular
Nominative	an gearbach
Genitive	an ghearbaigh
Dative	leis an ngearbach don ghearbach

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
gearbach	ghearbach	ngearbach
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

"gearbach" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
“gerbach” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

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