Reilig

Reilig

Vocabulary:

reilig [f] = burial ground, graveyard

Grammar:

Irish nouns are declined, but the declination is still quite basic comparing to Slavic or Ugro-Finnic languages.
There are four cases: nominative, genitive, dative and vocative, however dative and vocative are rudimentary.
The nouns are divided into five declensions and an irregular declension.
The word “reilig” is a feminine noun of the second declension.
The second declension covers mostly feminine nouns with three masculine exceptions.
The characteristic thing about nouns of the second declension is that their genitive is formed by adding “-e” (if the ending consonant is broad then it gets palatalised) or by replacing “-ach” with “-aí” and “-each” with “-í”.

singular nominative > genitive
reilig [f] > reilige
bróg [f] (shoe) > bróige
leabharlann [f] (library) > leabharlainne
lámh [f] (hand) > láimhe
súil [f] (eye) > súile
long [f] (ship) > loinge
fearg [f] (anger) > feirge
cearc [f] (hen) > circe
báisteach [f] (rain) > báistí
gealach [f] (moon) > gealaí
im [m] (butter) > ime
teach [m] (house) > tí
sliabh [m] (mountain) > sléibhe

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