mosach

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish mosach, from Proto-Celtic *mussāko-, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂d-.

Adjective

mosach (genitive singular masculine mosaigh, genitive singular feminine mosaí, plural mosacha, comparative mosaí)

1. shaggy, rough, bristly
2. bristly, grumpy, surly

Declension

Declension of mosach

	singular		plural (m/f)
Positive	masculine	feminine	(strong noun)	(weak noun)
nominative	mosach	mhosach	mosacha; mhosacha2
vocative	mhosaigh		mosacha
genitive		mosaí	mosacha	mosach
dative	mosach; mhosach1	mhosach; mhosaigh (archaic)	mosacha; mhosacha2
Comparative	níos mosaí
Superlative	is mosaí

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

• caidhp mhosach (“lawyer's wig”)
• éadach mosach (“nappy cloth”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of mosach

radical	lenition	eclipsis
mosach	mhosach	not applicable

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

References

• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “mosach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• “shaggy”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2024
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “mosach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “mosach”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “mosach”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024