craosach

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish cráesach (“gluttonous, greedy”, as substantive, “glutton”), from cráes (“maw, mouth, gullet; gluttony, excessive eating”); synchronically, craos (“gullet; maw; gluttony, voracity”) +‎ -ach.

Adjective

craosach (genitive singular masculine craosaigh, genitive singular feminine craosaí, plural craosacha, comparative craosaí)

  1. open-mouthed, deep-vented
  2. voracious, gluttonous
  3. roaring, raging

Declension

Noun

craosach m (genitive singular craosaigh, nominative plural craosaigh)

  1. Alternative form of craosaire (“glutton”)

Declension

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
craosach chraosach gcraosach
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 cráesach (“gluttonous, greedy”, as substantive, “glutton”), from cráes (“maw, mouth, gullet; gluttony, excessive eating”); synchronically, craos +‎ -ach.

Adjective

craosach

  1. gluttonous, voracious
  2. wide-mouthed
  3. bibulous

Synonyms

Mutation

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