urchosc

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish airchosc (“check, hindrance; antidote, spell”).

Noun

urchosc m (genitive singular urchoisc, nominative plural urchoisc)

1. verbal noun of urchoisc
2. (law) bar
3. (medicine) prophylactic

Declension

Declension of urchosc

First declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative urchosc urchoisc Vocative a urchoisc a urchosca Genitive urchoisc urchosc Dative urchosc urchoisc

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an t-urchosc na hurchoisc Genitive an urchoisc na n-urchosc Dative leis an urchosc don urchosc leis na hurchoisc

Derived terms

• urchoisc (“bar”, verb)
• urchoscach (“prophylactic”, adjective)
• urchoscacht (“prophylaxis”)

 

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
urchosc	n-urchosc	hurchosc	t-urchosc
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “airchosc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Further reading

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