foclachas

Irish

Etymology

From foclach +‎ -as.

Noun

foclachas m (genitive singular foclachais)

1. verbosity, verbiage, wordiness

Declension

Declension of foclachas (first declension, no plural)

bare forms case singular nominative foclachas vocative a fhoclachais genitive foclachais dative foclachas forms with the definite article case singular nominative an foclachas genitive an fhoclachais dative leis an bhfoclachas don fhoclachas

Related terms

• foclaíocht

Mutation

Mutated forms of foclachas

radical	lenition	eclipsis
foclachas	fhoclachas	bhfoclachas

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) “foclachas”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “foclachas”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “foclachas”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024