bathlach

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Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Irish bachlach (“labourer, churl”).[2]

Pronunciation

Noun

bathlach m (genitive singular bathlaigh, nominative plural bathlaigh)

  1. (obsolete) shepherd
  2. rustic, churl
  3. dilapidated, ramshackle building or other structure

Declension

Declension of bathlach (first declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative bathlach bathlaigh
vocative a bhathlaigh a bhathlacha
genitive bathlaigh bathlach
dative bathlach bathlaigh
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an bathlach na bathlaigh
genitive an bhathlaigh na mbathlach
dative leis an mbathlach
don bhathlach 		leis na bathlaigh

Synonyms

Mutation

Mutated forms of bathlach
radical lenition eclipsis
bathlach bhathlach mbathlach

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

References

  1. ^ “bathlach”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 bachlach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 231, page 117

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