sochar

See also: sochař

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish sochar (“a good or valid contract; privileges, rights, dues, revenues; profit, advantage, benefit”), from so- (“good”) + cor (“act of putting, placing; setting up; act of throwing, casting; act of letting go, discarding; leap, twist; throw; twist, coil; contract”).

Noun

sochar m (genitive singular sochair, nominative plural sochair)

(literary) valid contract; (collectively) privileges, dues; emoluments
benefit, profit; advantage, gain
produce

Declension

Declension of sochar

First declension

Bare forms:

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	sochar	sochair
Vocative	a shochair	a shochara
Genitive	sochair	sochar
Dative	sochar	sochair

Forms with the definite article:

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	an sochar	na sochair
Genitive	an tsochair	na sochar
Dative	leis an sochar don sochar	leis na sochair

Synonyms

(profit): gnóthachan
(profit, advantage): brabach
(profit, advantage, return): brabús
(benefit): leas, buntáiste
(benefit, gain): tairbhe
(return): toradh

Derived terms

bonn sochair (“luck-penny”)
fuílleach sochair (“credit balance”)
im sochair (“yellowish oily exudation from soil”)
nóta sochair (“credit note”)
sochar agus dochar (“profit and loss; advantages and disadvantages”)
sochar frithpháirteach (“mutual benefit”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
sochar	shochar after an, tsochar	not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “sochar”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “sochar”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Scottish Gaelic

Noun

sochar f (genitive singular sochair, no plural)

silliness, weakness, instability of purpose, yielding or too-compliant disposition, simplicity
indulgence
immunity
interest
present, donation
Alternative form of sochair
bashfulness, shyness