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acrach
acrach
Irish
Alternative forms
Adjective
acrach (genitive singular masculine acraigh, genitive singular feminine acraí, plural acracha, comparative acraí)
Declension
Declension of acrach
| Singular | Plural (m/f) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Positive | Masculine | Feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
| Nominative | acrach | acrach¹ | acracha³ | |
| Vocative | acraigh¹ | acrach¹ | acracha | |
| Genitive | acraigh¹ | acraí (obsolete) acraighe |
acracha | acrach |
| Dative | acrach² | acrach¹ (archaic) acraigh¹ |
acracha³ | |
| Comparative | acraí (obsolete) acraighe |
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¹ This form is lenited after a noun if possible.
² This form is lenited if possible when the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
³ This form is lenited if possible when the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.
Mutation
| Irish mutation | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Radical | Eclipsis | with h-prothesis | with t-prothesis |
| acrach | n-acrach | hacrach | t-acrach |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | |||
References
- "acrach" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
Scottish Gaelic
Etymology 1
From Old Irish occorach
Alternative forms
Adjective
acrach (genitive singular feminine acraiche, comparative acraiche)
Usage notes
- Usually used attributively. The usual predicative form is created using acras:
- daoine acrach ― hungry people
- tha an t-acras orra ― they are hungry (literally "[there] is the hunger on them")
Derived terms
- mion-acrach (“hungry, voracious, ravenous; having a false appetite; eating but little at a time, as an invalid”)
Noun
acrach m
- hungry person
Etymology 2
Noun
acrach f
- genitive singular of acair (“anchor”)
References
- Faclair Gàidhlig Dwelly Air Loidhne, Dwelly, Edward (1911), Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic-English Dictionary (10th ed.), Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, ISBN 0 901771 92 9
- “occorach” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.