anrachán

Irish

Etymology

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Noun

anrachán m (genitive singular anracháin, nominative plural anracháin)

1. craving, hunger
2. greedy, hungry, person

Declension

Declension of anrachán (first declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative anrachán anracháin vocative a anracháin a anrachána genitive anracháin anrachán dative anrachán anracháin forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an t-anrachán na hanracháin genitive an anracháin na n-anrachán dative leis an anrachán don anrachán leis na hanracháin

Mutation

Mutated forms of anrachán

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
anrachán	n-anrachán	hanrachán	t-anrachán

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “anrachán”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN