galarach

Irish

Etymology

From galar (“sickness, disease”) +‎ -ach (adjectival suffix).

Adjective

galarach (genitive singular masculine galaraigh, genitive singular feminine galaraí, plural galaracha, comparative galaraí)

1. Alternative spelling of galrach (“diseased, infected; sickly, morbid”)

Declension

Declension of galarach

	Singular		Plural (m/f)
Positive	Masculine	Feminine	(strong noun)	(weak noun)
Nominative	galarach	ghalarach	galaracha; ghalaracha²
Vocative	ghalaraigh		galaracha
Genitive		galaraí	galaracha	galarach
Dative	galarach; ghalarach¹	ghalarach; ghalaraigh (archaic)	galaracha; ghalaracha²
Comparative	níos galaraí
Superlative	is galaraí

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

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
galarach	ghalarach	ngalarach
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “galarach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN