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Irish
Alternative forms
Etymology
From acra (“tool, implement; service, convenience”) + -ach (adjectival suffix).
Adjective
acrach (genitive singular masculine acraigh, genitive singular feminine acraí, plural acracha, comparative acraí)
- handy, useful; convenient
Declension
Mutation
Irish mutation
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Radical |
Eclipsis |
with h-prothesis |
with t-prothesis
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acrach
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n-acrach
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hacrach
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not applicable
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Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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Further reading
Scottish Gaelic
Etymology 1
From Old Irish occorach.
Adjective
acrach (genitive singular feminine acraiche, comparative acraiche)
- hungry
Usage notes
- Usually used attributively. The usual predicative form is created using acras:
- daoine acrach ― hungry people
- tha an t-acras orra ― they are hungry (literally, “ is the hunger on them”)
Alternative forms
Derived terms
- mion-acrach (“hungry, voracious, ravenous; having a false appetite; eating but little at a time, as an invalid”)
Noun
acrach m
- hungry person
Alternative forms
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Noun
acrach f
- genitive singular of acair (“anchor”)
Mutation
Further reading
- Edward Dwelly (1911) “acrach”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “occorach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language