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Irish
Etymology
bachall + -ach
Pronunciation
Adjective
bachlach (genitive singular masculine bachlaigh, genitive singular feminine bachlaí, plural bachlacha)
- 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
¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.
Mutation
Irish mutation
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Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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bachlach
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bhachlach
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mbachlach
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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
- “bachallach”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 bachlach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927) “baċallaċ”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “bachallach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
Middle Irish
Etymology
From bachall + -ach.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbaxlax/, /ˈbaxləx/
Noun
bachlach m
- labourer, serf, bondman
- clown, churl
Derived terms
Descendants
Mutation
Middle Irish mutation
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Radical |
Lenition |
Nasalization
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bachlach |
bachlach pronounced with /v(ʲ)-/ |
mbachlach
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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