adharcach

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish adarcach; synchronically adharc (horn) + -ach (adjectival suffix). The sense ‘sexually aroused’ is a semantic loan from English horny.

Adjective

adharcach (genitive singular masculine adharcaigh, genitive singular feminine adharcaí, plural adharcacha, comparative adharcaí)

  1. horned, horny
  2. horny (sexually aroused)

Declension

Derived terms

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
adharcach n-adharcach hadharcach not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading


Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish adarcach, from adarc (horn); synchronically, adharc (horn) + -ach (adjectival suffix).

Adjective

adharcach (genitive singular masculine adharcaich, genitive singular feminine adharcaiche, comparative adharcaiche)

  1. horned, horny
  2. (heraldry) attired

Declension

Case Masculine singular Feminine singular Plural
Nominative adharcach adharcach adharcach
Vocative adharcaich adharcach adharcach
Genitive adharcaich adharcaiche adharcach
Dative adharcach adharcaich adharcach

Derived terms

Mutation

Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical Eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
adharcach n-adharcach h-adharcach t-adharcach
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
  • adarcach” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
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