ablach
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Irish
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Perhaps from or related to Middle Irish apach (“corpse, remains, entrails”) (see abach).
Noun
[edit]ablach m (genitive singular ablaigh, nominative plural ablaigh)
Declension
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Etymology 2
[edit](This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Adjective
[edit]ablach (genitive singular masculine ablaigh, genitive singular feminine ablaí, plural ablacha, comparative ablaí)
Declension
[edit]singular | plural (m/f) | |||
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Positive | masculine | feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
nominative | ablach | ablach | ablacha | |
vocative | ablaigh | ablacha | ||
genitive | ablaí | ablacha | ablach | |
dative | ablach | ablach; ablaigh (archaic) |
ablacha | |
Comparative | níos ablaí | |||
Superlative | is ablaí |
Mutation
[edit]radical | eclipsis | with h-prothesis | with t-prothesis |
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ablach | n-ablach | hablach | t-ablach |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Further reading
[edit]- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “ablach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 ablach (‘carcass, carrion’)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “ablach”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- “ablach”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024
Scots
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Akin to Old Irish ablach (“carcass, corpse, carrion”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈɑbləx/
- (Northern Scots) IPA(key): /ˈɑblɪç/
- (Doric Scots) IPA(key): /ˈeblɪç/
Noun
[edit]ablach (plural ablachs)
- A mangled carcass or dead body.
- A body not necessarily dead but maimed or reduced to a pitiable condition.
- An insignificant or contemptible person through lack of size or defect of will or intellect.
- An untidy or clumsy person.
- (humorous) child
- An object defective through lack of size.
References
[edit]- “ablach, n.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.