Irish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From bagar (threat) +‎ -ach (adjectival suffix).

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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bagrach (genitive singular masculine bagrach, genitive singular feminine bagraí, plural bagracha, comparative bagraí)

  1. threatening, menacing

Declension

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Declension of bagrach
Positive singular plural
masculine feminine
nominative bagrach bhagrach bagracha;
bhagracha2
vocative bhagraigh bagracha
genitive bagraí strong noun weak noun
bagracha bagrach
dative bagrach;
bhagrach1
bhagrach;
bhagraigh (archaic)
bagracha;
bhagracha2
Comparative níos bagraí
Superlative is bagraí

1 When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
2 When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

Mutation

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Mutated forms of bagrach
radical lenition eclipsis
bagrach bhagrach mbagrach

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

References

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  1. ^ bagrach”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 266, page 134

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