iontach
Irish
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old Irish ingantach (“wonderful, remarkable, strange; amazed, wonder-struck”), from ingnad (compare modern ionadh).
Pronunciation
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Adjective
iontach (genitive singular masculine iontaigh, genitive singular feminine iontaí, plural iontacha, comparative iontaí)
- wonderful (excellent, extremely impressive); surprising, strange
- Tá an t-amhrán seo go hiontach.
- This song is wonderful.
Usage notes
Takes the adverbial construction go hiontach when used predicatively after a form of bí.
Declension
| singular | plural (m/f) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Positive | masculine | feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
| nominative | iontach | iontach | iontacha | |
| vocative | iontaigh | iontacha | ||
| genitive | iontaí | iontacha | iontach | |
| dative | iontach | iontach; iontaigh (archaic) |
iontacha | |
| Comparative | níos iontaí | |||
| Superlative | is iontaí | |||
Related terms
Adverb
iontach
Mutation
| radical | eclipsis | with h-prothesis | with t-prothesis |
|---|---|---|---|
| iontach | n-iontach | hiontach | not applicable |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Further reading
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “iontach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “iontach”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- “iontach”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “ingantach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language