bachlach
Irish edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
bachlach (genitive singular masculine bachlaigh, genitive singular feminine bachlaí, plural bachlacha)
- Alternative form of bachallach (“curly, ringleted”)
- 1939, Peig Sayers, “Inghean an Cheannaidhe”, in Marie-Louise Sjoestedt, Description d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (Bibliothèque de l'École des Hautes Études; 270) (overall work in French), Paris: Librairie Honoré Champion, page 197:
- Do bhí a ceann bachlach bán beárrtha aici, agus culath duine uasail uirthi; budh dhóigh leat gur fear í insan am san.
- She had shaved her curly blonde head and put on a gentleman’s suit; you would have thought she was a man at that time.
Inflection edit
Declension of bachlach
| Singular | Plural (m/f) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Positive | Masculine | Feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
| Nominative | bachlach | bhachlach | bachlacha; bhachlacha² | |
| Vocative | bhachlaigh | bachlacha | ||
| Genitive | bachlaí | bachlacha | bachlach | |
| Dative | bachlach; bhachlach¹ |
bhachlach; bhachlaigh (archaic) |
bachlacha; bhachlacha² | |
| Comparative | níos bachlaí | |||
| Superlative | is bachlaí | |||
¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.
Mutation edit
| Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| bachlach | bhachlach | mbachlach |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
Further reading edit
- “bachallach”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “2 bachlach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927) “baċallaċ”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “bachallach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
Middle Irish edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
bachlach m
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
Mutation edit
| Middle Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
| bachlach | bachlach pronounced with /v(ʲ)-/ |
mbachlach |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
Further reading edit
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 bachlach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language