craosach
Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Irish cráesach (“gluttonous, greedy”, as substantive, “glutton”), from cráes (“maw, mouth, gullet; gluttony, excessive eating”). By surface analysis, craos (“gullet; maw; gluttony, voracity”) + -ach.
Adjective
[edit]craosach (genitive singular masculine craosaigh, genitive singular feminine craosaí, plural craosacha, comparative craosaí)
Declension
[edit]singular | plural (m/f) | |||
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Positive | masculine | feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
nominative | craosach | chraosach | craosacha; chraosacha2 | |
vocative | chraosaigh | craosacha | ||
genitive | craosaí | craosacha | craosach | |
dative | craosach; chraosach1 |
chraosach; chraosaigh (archaic) |
craosacha; chraosacha2 | |
Comparative | níos craosaí | |||
Superlative | is craosaí |
1 When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
2 When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.
Noun
[edit]craosach m (genitive singular craosaigh, nominative plural craosaigh)
- Alternative form of craosaire (“glutton”)
Declension
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Mutation
[edit]radical | lenition | eclipsis |
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craosach | chraosach | gcraosach |
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) “craosach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cráesach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Scottish Gaelic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Irish cráesach (“gluttonous, greedy”, as substantive, “glutton”), from cráes (“maw, mouth, gullet; gluttony, excessive eating”). By surface analysis, craos + -ach.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]craosach
- gluttonous, voracious
- Synonym: gionach
- wide-mouthed
- bibulous
Derived terms
[edit]- preachan-craosach, sgreuchan-craosach (“vulture”)
Noun
[edit]craosach m (genitive singular craosaich, plural craosaich)
Noun
[edit]craosach f (genitive singular craosaich, plural craosaichean)
- wide-mouthed woman
Mutation
[edit]radical | lenition |
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craosach | chraosach |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
References
[edit]- Edward Dwelly (1911) “craosach”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary][1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cráesach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Irish terms inherited from Old Irish
- Irish terms derived from Old Irish
- Irish adjectives suffixed with -ach
- Irish nouns suffixed with -ach
- Irish lemmas
- Irish adjectives
- Irish nouns
- Irish masculine nouns
- Irish first-declension nouns
- Scottish Gaelic terms inherited from Old Irish
- Scottish Gaelic terms derived from Old Irish
- Scottish Gaelic adjectives suffixed with -ach
- Scottish Gaelic terms with IPA pronunciation
- Scottish Gaelic lemmas
- Scottish Gaelic adjectives
- Scottish Gaelic nouns
- Scottish Gaelic masculine nouns
- Scottish Gaelic feminine nouns
- gd:Female
- gd:People