Irish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From acra (tool, implement; service, convenience) +‎ -ach (adjectival suffix).

Adjective

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acrach (genitive singular masculine acraigh, genitive singular feminine acraí, plural acracha, comparative acraí)

  1. handy, useful; convenient

Declension

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Mutation

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Irish mutation
Radical Eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
acrach n-acrach hacrach not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

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Scottish Gaelic

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Etymology 1

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From Old Irish occorach.

Adjective

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acrach (genitive singular feminine acraiche, comparative acraiche)

  1. hungry
Usage notes
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  • Usually used attributively. The usual predicative form is created using acras:
    daoine acrachhungry people
    tha an t-acras orrathey are hungry (literally, “[there] is the hunger on them”)
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Derived terms
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  • mion-acrach (hungry, voracious, ravenous; having a false appetite; eating but little at a time, as an invalid)

Noun

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acrach m

  1. hungry person
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Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

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acrach f

  1. genitive singular of acair (anchor)

Mutation

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Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical Eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
acrach n-acrach h-acrach t-acrach
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

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  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “acrach”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “occorach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language