acarach
Appearance
Irish
[edit]Adjective
[edit]acarach (genitive singular masculine acaraigh, genitive singular feminine acaraí, plural acaracha, comparative acaraí)
- Alternative form of acrach (“handy, useful; hungry”)
Declension
[edit]singular | plural (m/f) | |||
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Positive | masculine | feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
nominative | acarach | acarach | acaracha | |
vocative | acaraigh | acaracha | ||
genitive | acaraí | acaracha | acarach | |
dative | acarach | acarach; acaraigh (archaic) |
acaracha | |
Comparative | níos acaraí | |||
Superlative | is acaraí |
Mutation
[edit]radical | eclipsis | with h-prothesis | with t-prothesis |
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acarach | n-acarach | hacarach | not applicable |
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) “acarach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN