corrach

corrach (plural corrachs)

1. Alternative form of currach (“light, rowed Irish boat”)
   • 1862, University Magazine: A Literary and Philosophic Review, page 68:

     The corrachs, as may be supposed, drew but few feet of water.

   • 1891, Mary Banim, Here and There Through Ireland, part 1, page 116:

     […] the corrachs are so light, and the western fishermen are so skilful in their management, that accidents are almost unknown, and if a boatman but says it is safe to venture out with him, there is no danger whatever [...]

   • 1892, The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, volume 119, page 486:

     So, happy at heart, he stepped into the corrach, that floated lightly on its own light shadow under the edge of the island, and he rowed it over the Dark Lake […] but the man who sat in the corrach watched for the light […]

   • 1903, Country Life Illustrated, volume 13, page 544:

     The earliest boat, so they say in Ireland, was a raft. After that came the corrach. The pattern of the corrach drifted across to the adjacent island, where in debased form it became the coracle, which is used on the upper reaches of the Severn and elsewhere even unto this day. So also the corrach of ...

   • 1920, Katharine Tynan, Denys the Dreamer, page 247:

     ... as the corrach pulled near the shore.

From Old Irish cuirrech,^[1] currach m (“marsh, fen”). Likely related to Welsh cors (“reeds, bog, marsh”); see there for details.

• (Munster, Connacht) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔɾˠəx/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈkʌɾˠa(x)/^[2]

corrach m (genitive singular corraigh, nominative plural corraigh)

1. (geography) wet bog, marsh

• pónaire chorraigh (“buck-bean, bog-bean”)

From Middle Irish corrach.^[3] By surface analysis, corr +‎ -ach.

• (Munster, Connacht) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔɾˠəx/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔɾˠa(x)/^[4]

corrach (genitive singular masculine corraigh, genitive singular feminine corraí, plural corracha, comparative corraí)

1. uneven, unsteady; uneasy, unsettled
2. projecting; angular, pointed

• (insecure): neamhdhaingean
• (erratic): taomach

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “corrach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “corrach”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “corrach”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2025

From corr (“sharp, protruding point”) +‎ -ach.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkor͈əx/

corrach

1. rough, uneven (of places, mountains, roads, etc.)
2. moving, rough, restless (of water, particularly the sea)

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “corrach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

From Middle Irish corrach.^[1] By surface analysis, còrr +‎ -ach.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkʰɔrˠəx/

corrach

1. steep, precipitous

   Synonym: cas

2. uneven
3. shaky, precarious, unstable, unsteady

From cor +‎ -ach.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔraχ/

corrach m (plural corachod or corachiaid, diminutive corechyn)

1. dwarf, pygmy

   Synonym: cor

2. gnome

   Synonyms: dynan, pwca

• corachaidd (“dwarfish, gnome-like”)
• corachedd (“dwarfishness”)

• Griffiths, Bruce, Glyn Jones, Dafydd (1995) Geiriadur yr Academi: The Welsh Academy English–Welsh Dictionary‎, Cardiff: University of Wales Press, →ISBN
• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “corrach”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies