tagrach

Irish

Etymology

From tagra (“(act of) pleading, plea; disputation, argument; lawsuit”) +‎ -ach (adjectival suffix).

Adjective

tagrach (genitive singular masculine tagraigh, genitive singular feminine tagraí, plural tagracha, comparative tagraí)

1. allusive; (heraldry) canting
2. smartmouthed, impertinent

   Synonyms: brusanta, dosartha, sonnta

Declension

Declension of tagrach

	singular		plural (m/f)
Positive	masculine	feminine	(strong noun)	(weak noun)
nominative	tagrach	thagrach	tagracha; thagracha2
vocative	thagraigh		tagracha
genitive		tagraí	tagracha	tagrach
dative	tagrach; thagrach1	thagrach; thagraigh (archaic)	tagracha; thagracha2
Comparative	níos tagraí
Superlative	is tagraí

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

• ochslaíoch tagrach (“ablative of respect”)

Related terms

• tagracht (“allusiveness; smartness, impertinence.”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of tagrach

radical	lenition	eclipsis
tagrach	thagrach	dtagrach

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) “tagrach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “tagrach”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “tagrach”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024