ocrasach

Irish

Etymology

From ocras (“hunger”) +‎ -ach (adjectival suffix).

Adjective

ocrasach (genitive singular masculine ocrasaigh, plural ocrasacha)

1. Alternative form of ocrach (“hungry; marked by, inducing, hunger; poor, barren; poverty-stricken; mean, miserly”)

Declension

Declension of ocrasach

	singular		plural (m/f)
Positive	masculine	feminine	(strong noun)	(weak noun)
nominative	ocrasach	ocrasach	ocrasacha
vocative	ocrasaigh		ocrasacha
genitive		ocrasaí	ocrasacha	ocrasach
dative	ocrasach	ocrasach; ocrasaigh (archaic)	ocrasacha
Comparative	níos ocrasaí
Superlative	is ocrasaí

Noun

ocrasach m (genitive singular ocrasaigh, nominative plural ocrasaigh)

1. Alternative form of ocrach (“hungry person”)

Declension

Declension of ocrasach (first declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative ocrasach ocrasaigh vocative a ocrasaigh a ocrasacha genitive ocrasaigh ocrasach dative ocrasach ocrasaigh forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an t-ocrasach na hocrasaigh genitive an ocrasaigh na n-ocrasach dative leis an ocrasach don ocrasach leis na hocrasaigh

Mutation

Mutated forms of ocrasach

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
ocrasach	n-ocrasach	hocrasach	t-ocrasach

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