bachlach

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Irish

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Adjective

bachlach (genitive singular masculine bachlaigh, genitive singular feminine bachlaí, plural bachlacha)

  1. Alternative form of bachallach (“curly, ringleted”)
    • 1939, Peig Sayers, “Inghean an Cheannaidhe”, in Marie-Louise Sjoestedt, Description d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (Bibliothèque de l'École des Hautes Études; 270) (overall work in French), Paris: Librairie Honoré Champion, page 197:
      Do bhí a ceann bachlach bán beárrtha aici, agus culath duine uasail uirthi; budh dhóigh leat gur fear í insan am san.
      She had shaved her curly blonde head and put on a gentleman’s suit; you would have thought she was a man at that time.
Inflection
Declension of bachlach
Singular Plural (m/f)
Positive Masculine Feminine (strong noun) (weak noun)
Nominative bachlach bhachlach bachlacha;
bhachlacha²
Vocative bhachlaigh bachlacha
Genitive bachlaí bachlacha bachlach
Dative bachlach;
bhachlach¹ 		bhachlach;
bhachlaigh (archaic) 		bachlacha;
bhachlacha²
Comparative níos bachlaí
Superlative is bachlaí

¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

Etymology 2

Noun

bachlach m (genitive singular bachlaigh, nominative plural bachlaigh)

  1. Alternative form of bathlach (“clumsy person; dilapidated building”)
Declension
Declension of bachlach

First declension

Bare forms:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative bachlach bachlaigh
Vocative a bhachlaigh a bhachlacha
Genitive bachlaigh bachlach
Dative bachlach bachlaigh

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an bachlach na bachlaigh
Genitive an bhachlaigh na mbachlach
Dative leis an mbachlach

don bhachlach

leis na bachlaigh

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
bachlach bhachlach mbachlach
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

  1. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1938) Description d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ancienne Honoré Champion, page 191

Middle Irish

Etymology

From bachall +‎ -ach.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbaxlax/, /ˈbaxləx/

Noun

bachlach m

  1. labourer, serf, bondman
  2. clown, churl

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Irish: bathlach
  • Scottish Gaelic: balach

Mutation

Middle Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
bachlach bachlach
pronounced with /β(ʲ)-/		 mbachlach
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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