arracht
Irish
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom Old Irish arracht (“idol, idolatrous image; apparition, spectre, monster”).
Noun
editarracht m (genitive singular arrachta, nominative plural arrachtaí)
Declension
editDeclension of arracht
Bare forms:
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Forms with the definite article:
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Derived terms
edit- arrachtach (“monstrous; grotesque; huge, powerful”, adjective)
- arrachtas m (“grotesqueness; brawn, strength”)
Mutation
editIrish mutation | |||
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Radical | Eclipsis | with h-prothesis | with t-prothesis |
arracht | n-arracht | harracht | t-arracht |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading
edit- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “arracht”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 arracht”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- “arracht”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024