acrach
Irish
Alternative forms
Etymology
From acra (“tool, implement; service, convenience”) + -ach (adjectival suffix)
Adjective
acrach (genitive singular masculine acraigh, genitive singular feminine acraí, plural acracha, comparative acraí)
Declension
Mutation
| Irish mutation | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Radical | Eclipsis | with h-prothesis | with t-prothesis |
| acrach | n-acrach | hacrach | not applicable |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | |||
Further reading
- "acrach" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
- Entries containing “acrach” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
- Entries containing “acrach” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
Scottish Gaelic
Etymology 1
From Old Irish occorach
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")
Alternative forms
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
Alternative forms
Etymology 2
Noun
acrach f
- genitive singular of acair (“anchor”)
Mutation
| Scottish Gaelic mutation | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Radical | Eclipsis | with h-prothesis | with t-prothesis |
| acrach | n-acrach | h-acrach | t-acrach |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | |||
Further reading
- 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
- “occorach” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
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