cruabhéalach

Irish

Etymology

From crua (“hard”) +‎ béal (“mouth”) + -ach (adjectival suffix).

Adjective

cruabhéalach (genitive singular masculine cruabhéalaigh, genitive singular feminine cruabhéalaí, plural cruabhéalacha, comparative cruabhéalaí)

1. hard-mouthed (of horse)

Declension

Declension of cruabhéalach

	singular		plural (m/f)
Positive	masculine	feminine	(strong noun)	(weak noun)
nominative	cruabhéalach	chruabhéalach	cruabhéalacha; chruabhéalacha2
vocative	chruabhéalaigh		cruabhéalacha
genitive		cruabhéalaí	cruabhéalacha	cruabhéalach
dative	cruabhéalach; chruabhéalach1	chruabhéalach; chruabhéalaigh (archaic)	cruabhéalacha; chruabhéalacha2
Comparative	níos cruabhéalaí
Superlative	is cruabhéalaí

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

Related terms

• béalbhraiteach (“tender-mouthed”, adjective)

Mutation

Mutated forms of cruabhéalach

radical	lenition	eclipsis
cruabhéalach	chruabhéalach	gcruabhéalach

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

References

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “cruabhéalach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN