galarach
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Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From galar (“sickness, disease”) + -ach (adjectival suffix).
Adjective
[edit]galarach (genitive singular masculine galaraigh, genitive singular feminine galaraí, plural galaracha, comparative galaraí)
- Alternative spelling of galrach (“diseased, infected; sickly, morbid”)
Declension
[edit]Declension of galarach
| Singular | Plural (m/f) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Positive | Masculine | Feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
| Nominative | galarach | ghalarach | galaracha; ghalaracha² | |
| Vocative | ghalaraigh | galaracha | ||
| Genitive | galaraí | galaracha | galarach | |
| Dative | galarach; ghalarach¹ |
ghalarach; ghalaraigh (archaic) |
galaracha; ghalaracha² | |
| Comparative | níos galaraí | |||
| Superlative | is galaraí | |||
¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.
Mutation
[edit]| Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| galarach | ghalarach | ngalarach |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
Further reading
[edit]- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “galarach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN