míbhéasach

Irish

Alternative forms

• mí-bhéasach (supserseded)^[1]
• mí-bheusach (obsolete)^[2]

Etymology

From Middle Irish míbésach.^[3] By surface analysis, mí- +‎ béasach and míbhéas +‎ -ach.

Adjective

míbhéasach (genitive singular masculine míbhéasaigh, genitive singular feminine míbhéasaí, plural míbhéasacha, comparative míbhéasaí)

1. ill behaved
2. ill-bred, ill-mannered
3. incorrect (inappropriate, improper)

Declension

Declension of míbhéasach

	singular		plural (m/f)
Positive	masculine	feminine	(strong noun)	(weak noun)
nominative	míbhéasach	mhíbhéasach	míbhéasacha; mhíbhéasacha2
vocative	mhíbhéasaigh		míbhéasacha
genitive		míbhéasaí	míbhéasacha	míbhéasach
dative	míbhéasach; mhíbhéasach1	mhíbhéasach; mhíbhéasaigh (archaic)	míbhéasacha; mhíbhéasacha2
Comparative	níos míbhéasaí
Superlative	is míbhéasaí

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 míbhéasach

radical	lenition	eclipsis
míbhéasach	mhíbhéasach	not applicable

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

References

1. Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “mí-ḃéasaċ”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 481
2. “míbhéasach”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
3. Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “mí-”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Further reading

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