ulcha

Irish

From Old Irish ulcha, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pulu- (“hair”).

ulcha f (genitive singular ulcha, nominative plural ulchaí)

Declension of ulcha (fourth declension)

forms with the definite article
case	singular	plural
nominative	an ulcha	na hulchaí
genitive	na hulcha	na n-ulchaí
dative	leis an ulcha don ulcha	leis na hulchaí

Mutated forms of *ulcha*
radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
ulcha	n-ulcha	hulcha	not applicable

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

From Proto-Indo-European *pulu- (“hair”). Cognate with Latin pilus.

ulcha f

Feminine iā-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ulchae^L	ulchai^L	ulchai
Vocative	ulchae^L	ulchai^L	ulchai
Accusative	ulchai^N	ulchai^L	ulchai
Genitive	ulchae	ulchae^L	ulchae^N
Dative	ulchai^L	ulchaib	ulchaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: ^H = triggers aspiration ^L = triggers lenition ^N = triggers nasalization

Mutation of *ulcha*
radical	lenition	nasalization
ulcha (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)	unchanged	n-ulcha

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

Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “ulcha”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language