currach

English

Alternative forms

• curagh, curragh

Etymology

From Irish curach, corrach, from Proto-Celtic *kurukos (“boat”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkʌɹə/, /ˈkʌɹəx/

Noun

currach (plural currachs)

1. (nautical) An Irish boat, constructed like a coracle, and originally the same shape; now a boat of similar construction but conventional shape and large enough to be operated by up to eight oars.
   • 2002, Joseph O'Connor, Star of the Sea, Vintage, published 2003, page 53:

     Some days he went out in the currach with her father and her brothers, out past Blue Island and Inishlackan, where the mackerel and sea salmon were fat as piglets.

Irish

Noun

currach f (genitive singular curraí, nominative plural curracha)

1. Alternative spelling of curach

Declension

Declension of currach

Second declension

Bare forms Case Singular Plural Nominative currach curracha Vocative a churrach a churracha Genitive curraí currach Dative currach curaigh (archaic, dialectal) curracha

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Plural Nominative an churrach na curracha Genitive na curraí na gcurrach Dative leis an gcurrach leis an gcuraigh (archaic, dialectal) don churrach don churaigh (archaic, dialectal) leis na curracha

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
currach	churrach	gcurrach
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.