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Irregular Genitive Singular.

mac, a son	has	genitive	mic
biaḋ, food,	„	„	bíḋ
rian, a track,	„	„	riain
srian, a bridle,	„	„	sriain
Brian, Bernard, Brian		„	Briain

Neaċ, a person; and éinne, aonne (or aonneaċ), anybody, are indeclinable.

65. Some nouns of this declension form their nominative plural by adding e.

NOUN.	GENITIVE SING.	NOM. PLURAL.
aonaċ, a fair	aonaiġ	$\scriptstyle {\left\{{\begin{matrix}\ \\\ \end{matrix}}\right.}$	aontaiġe aonaiġe
doras, a door	dorais		doirse
éigeas, a learned man	éigis		éigse
aingeal, an angel	aingil		aingle
bóṫar, a road	bóṫair		bóiṫre
madraḋ or (madaḋ), a dog	madraiḋ		madraiḋe
slaḃraḋ, a chain	slaḃraiḋ		slaḃraiḋe
margaḋ, a market	margaiḋ		margaiḋe

66. The following nouns take a in nominative plural:—peann, a pen; seod, a jewel; slán, a surety; cneas, skin; meacan, a carrot or parsnip^{[W 1]}; deor, a tear; caor, a berry^{[W 2]}; smeur, a blackberry; uḃall, an apple (pl. uḃla); focal (pl. focail or focla); fiaċ,^[1] a debt (fiaċ, pl. féiċ or féiġ, a raven); sgeul, news; and bruaċ, a brink.

67. The following take ta, in nom. pl.:—seol, a sail; ceol, music; neul, a cloud; sgeul, a story; cogaḋ,

1. This word is usually used in the plural; as ní ḟuil aon ḟiaca orm, I am not in debt.

1. DIL, Dinneen, and Ó Dónaill all suggest the usual plural is meacain, though DIL does cite one instance of mecna in Early Modern Irish.
2. All dictionaries say that this is a second-declension feminine noun, not a first-declension masculine noun.