ocras
English
editNoun
editocras
Anagrams
editFrench
editPronunciation
editVerb
editocras
- second-person singular past historic of ocrer
Irish
editEtymology
editFrom Middle Irish occoras.[1]
Pronunciation
editNoun
editocras m (genitive singular ocrais)
- hunger
- Tá ocras orm.
- I’m hungry.
- (literally, “Hunger is upon me.”)
- Is maith an t-anlann an t-ocras. (proverb)
- Hunger is a good sauce.
- poverty, scarcity; meanness, miserliness
- strong desire, craving
Declension
editDeclension of ocras
Bare forms (no plural of this noun)
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Forms with the definite article:
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Derived terms
edit- ag siolgaireacht le hocras (“weak from hunger”)
- bheith ar an ocras (“to live in hunger, be in want”)
- faoi ocras (“enduring hunger”)
- lucht ocrais (“miserable lot”)
- ocras tar éis altaithe (“lean diet”, literally “hunger after thanksgiving”)
- ocrasach (“hungry”)
- ocrasán (“hungry person”)
- ocrastúil (“hungry”, adjective)
- ré-ocras (“peckishness”)
- sceimhle ocrais (“raging hunger”)
Related terms
editMutation
editIrish mutation | |||
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Radical | Eclipsis | with h-prothesis | with t-prothesis |
ocras | n-ocras | hocras | not applicable |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References
edit- ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “occoras”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 110, page 59
- ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 23, page 12
Further reading
edit- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “ocras”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “ocras”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 524
Spanish
editNoun
editocras m pl
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