-acha
Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Originally the Old Irish accusative and vocative plural ending of k-stem nouns. For example Old Irish cathair/cathir, vocative/accusative plural cathracha → Irish cathair, plural cathracha.
Suffix
[edit]-acha
- Ending of the plural of certain nouns.
Old Irish
[edit]Suffix
[edit]-acha
- inflection of -ach:
- nominative plural feminine/neuter
- vocative/accusative plural all genders
Spanish
[edit]Suffix
[edit]-acha f (noun-forming suffix, plural -achas)
- Alternative form of -acho
Usage notes
[edit]- Used especially after feminine nouns. Compare -acho.
Further reading
[edit]- “-acho”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
Categories:
- Irish terms inherited from Old Irish
- Irish terms derived from Old Irish
- Irish lemmas
- Irish suffixes
- Irish inflectional suffixes
- Old Irish non-lemma forms
- Old Irish suffix forms
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish suffixes
- Spanish noun-forming suffixes
- Spanish countable suffixes
- Spanish feminine suffixes
- Spanish pejorative suffixes