bídeach

Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *bid (“small”), possibly loaned to French as bider (“to trot”), bidet (“pony, small horse”), referring to a small horse.[1]

Adjective

bídeach (genitive singular masculine bídigh, genitive singular feminine bídí, plural bídeacha, comparative bídí)

  1. tiny, wee, microscopic, diminutive, minute, puny, pygmy

Declension
Declension of bídeach
Singular Plural (m/f)
Positive Masculine Feminine (strong noun) (weak noun)
Nominative bídeach bhídeach bídeacha;
bhídeacha²
Vocative bhídigh bídeacha
Genitive bídí bídeacha bídeach
Dative bídeach;
bhídeach¹		 bhídeach;
bhídigh (archaic)		 bídeacha;
bhídeacha²
Comparative níos bídí
Superlative is bídí

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

Noun

bídeach f (genitive singular bídí, nominative plural bídeacha)

  1. tiny girl, woman

Declension
Declension of bídeach

Second declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative bídeach bídeacha
Vocative a bhídeach a bhídeacha
Genitive bídí bídeach
Dative bídeach bídeacha

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an bhídeach na bídeacha
Genitive na bídí na mbídeach
Dative leis an mbídeach

don bhídeach

 leis na bídeacha

Mutation
Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
bídeach bhídeach mbídeach
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References
  1. Pianigiani, Ottorino (1907), “bidetto”, in Vocabolario etimologico della lingua italiana (in Italian), Rome: Albrighi & Segati
  • Entries containing “bídeach” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
  • Entries containing “bídeach” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
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