galarach

Irish

Etymology

From galar (“sickness, disease”) +‎ -ach (adjectival suffix).

Adjective

galarach (genitive singular masculine galaraigh, genitive singular feminine galaraí, plural galaracha, comparative galaraí)

1. Alternative spelling of galrach (“diseased, infected; sickly, morbid”)

Declension

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

Mutated forms of galarach

radical	lenition	eclipsis
galarach	ghalarach	ngalarach

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