galarach

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Irish

Etymology

From galar (“sickness, disease”) +‎ -ach (adjectival suffix).

Adjective

galarach (genitive singular masculine galaraigh, genitive singular feminine galaraí, plural galaracha, comparative galaraí)

  1. Alternative spelling of galrach (“diseased, infected; sickly, morbid”)

Declension

Declension of galarach
singular plural (m/f)
Positive masculine feminine (strong noun) (weak noun)
nominative galarach ghalarach galaracha;
ghalaracha2
vocative ghalaraigh galaracha
genitive galaraí galaracha galarach
dative galarach;
ghalarach1 		ghalarach;
ghalaraigh (archaic) 		galaracha;
ghalaracha2
Comparative níos galaraí
Superlative is galaraí

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

Mutation

Mutated forms of galarach
radical lenition eclipsis
galarach ghalarach ngalarach

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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