aerach

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Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish aerach (“airy, pleasant; light-hearted, gay, frivolous”); aer (“air”) +‎ -ach. The sense ‘homosexual’ is a semantic loan from English gay.

Pronunciation

Adjective

aerach (genitive singular masculine aeraigh, genitive singular feminine aeraí, plural aeracha, comparative aeraí)

  1. airy
  2. lighthearted, gay; lively, frolicsome
  3. flighty, giddy
  4. (sexuality, LGBTQ) gay, homosexual
    Synonyms: bán, homaighnéasach
  5. Synonym of aerachtúil (“eerie”)

Declension

Declension of aerach
singular plural (m/f)
Positive masculine feminine (strong noun) (weak noun)
nominative aerach aerach aeracha
vocative aeraigh aeracha
genitive aeraí aeracha aerach
dative aerach aerach;
aeraigh (archaic) 		aeracha
Comparative níos aeraí
Superlative is aeraí

Mutation

Mutated forms of aerach
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
aerach n-aerach haerach not applicable

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

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