guaireach

Irish

Etymology 1

From guaire (“bristle”) +‎ -ach.

Adjective

guaireach (genitive singular masculine guairigh, genitive singular feminine guairí, plural guaireacha, comparative guairí)

1. bristly, setaceous

Declension

Declension of guaireach

	singular		plural (m/f)
Positive	masculine	feminine	(strong noun)	(weak noun)
nominative	guaireach	ghuaireach	guaireacha; ghuaireacha2
vocative	ghuairigh		guaireacha
genitive		guairí	guaireacha	guaireach
dative	guaireach; ghuaireach1	ghuaireach; ghuairigh (archaic)	guaireacha; ghuaireacha2
Comparative	níos guairí
Superlative	is guairí

¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

Derived terms

• guaireachán m (“bristly creature or thing; person with stubbly beard”)

Etymology 2

From Old Irish gúairech (“bristles”).

Noun

guaireach f (genitive singular guairí)

1. rough hair, bristles

Declension

Declension of guaireach (second declension, no plural)

bare forms case singular nominative guaireach vocative a ghuaireach genitive guairí dative guaireach forms with the definite article case singular nominative an ghuaireach genitive na guairí dative leis an nguaireach don ghuaireach

Mutation

Mutated forms of guaireach

radical	lenition	eclipsis
guaireach	ghuaireach	nguaireach

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “guaireach”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “guaireach”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024

References

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “guaireach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “gúairech”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language