bacach

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish baccach (“lame; lame person”), from bacc (“angle, bend; hindrance, act of hindering”) + -ach.

Pronunciation

Adjective

bacach (genitive singular masculine bacaigh, genitive singular feminine bacaí, plural bacacha, comparative bacaí)

  1. lame
  2. halting, imperfect

Declension

Derived terms

  • bacachán m (“lame person or animal”)

Noun

bacach m (genitive singular bacaigh, nominative plural bacaigh)

  1. lame person
  2. beggar
    Synonym: sirtheoir
    Ná bac le mac an bhacaigh is ní bhacfaidh mac an bhacaigh leat.
    Don’t bother the beggar’s son and the beggar’s son won’t bother you.
    1. mean person, sponger
    2. despicable person

Declension

Derived terms

  • bacachas m (“(act of) begging, sponging”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
bacach bhacach mbacach
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

  • "bacach" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
  • “baccach” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
  • Entries containing “bacach” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
  • Entries containing “bacach” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish baccach (“lame; lame person”), from bacc (“angle, bend; hindrance, act of hindering”) + -ach.

Adjective

bacach

  1. crippled, lame, limping
  2. rugged

Declension

First declension; forms of the positive degree:

Case Masculine singular Feminine singular Plural
Nominative bacach bhacach bacach
Vocative bhacaich bhacaich bacach
Genitive bhacaich bhacaich/bacaich bacach
Dative bhacach bhacaich bacach

Comparative/superlative: bacaiche

Noun

bacach m (genitive singular bacaich, plural bacaich)

  1. a crippled person

Mutation

Scottish Gaelic mutation
RadicalLenition
bacachbhacach
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
  • “baccach” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
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