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English
Noun
ocras
- plural of ocra
Anagrams
- AOCRs, ASROC, Carso, OSCAR, Oscar, ROSCA, Rasco, Rocas, orcas, oscar, sacro-, sarco-
French
Pronunciation
Verb
ocras
- second-person singular past historic of ocrer
Irish
Etymology
From Middle Irish occoras.
Pronunciation
Noun
ocras m (genitive singular ocrais)
- hunger
Tá ocras orm.- I’m hungry.
- (literally, “Hunger is upon me.”)
Is maith an t-anlann an t-ocras. (proverb)- Hunger is a good sauce.
- poverty, scarcity; meanness, miserliness
- strong desire, craving
Declension
Derived terms
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Mutation
| Irish mutation
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| Radical |
Eclipsis |
with h-prothesis |
with t-prothesis
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| ocras
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n-ocras
|
hocras
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not applicable
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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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References
- ^ G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “occoras”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 59
- ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 12
Further reading
Spanish
Noun
ocras m pl
- plural of ocra