arracht

Irish

Alternative forms

• arrachta, arrachtach, arrachtaí

Etymology

From Old Irish arracht (“idol, idolatrous image; apparition, spectre, monster”).

Noun

arracht m (genitive singular arrachta, nominative plural arrachtaí)

1. specter, monster
2. giant

Declension

Declension of arracht (third declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative arracht arrachtaí vocative a arracht a arrachtaí genitive arrachta arrachtaí dative arracht arrachtaí forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an t-arracht na harrachtaí genitive an arrachta na n-arrachtaí dative leis an arracht don arracht leis na harrachtaí

Derived terms

• arrachtach (“monstrous; grotesque; huge, powerful”, adjective)
• arrachtas m (“grotesqueness; brawn, strength”)

 

Mutation

Mutated forms of arracht

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
arracht	n-arracht	harracht	t-arracht

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) “arracht”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 arracht”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• “arracht”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024