aorachas

Irish

Etymology

From aorach (“satirical”) +‎ -as.

Noun

aorachas m (genitive singular aorachais)

1. (act of) satirizing, fault-finding; lampoonery

Declension

Declension of aorachas (first declension, no plural)

bare forms case singular nominative aorachas vocative a aorachais genitive aorachais dative aorachas forms with the definite article case singular nominative an t-aorachas genitive an aorachais dative leis an aorachas don aorachas

Related terms

• aoir (“lampoon, satire”)
• aor (“satirize, lampoon”, transitive verb)
• aorthóir (“satirist, lampooner”)

 

Mutation

Mutated forms of aorachas

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
aorachas	n-aorachas	haorachas	t-aorachas

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) “aorachas”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN