ocrasach

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Irish

Etymology

From ocras (“hunger”) +‎ -ach (adjectival suffix).

Adjective

ocrasach (genitive singular masculine ocrasaigh, plural ocrasacha)

  1. Alternative form of ocrach (“hungry; marked by, inducing, hunger; poor, barren; poverty-stricken; mean, miserly”)

Declension

Declension of ocrasach
singular plural (m/f)
Positive masculine feminine (strong noun) (weak noun)
nominative ocrasach ocrasach ocrasacha
vocative ocrasaigh ocrasacha
genitive ocrasaí ocrasacha ocrasach
dative ocrasach ocrasach;
ocrasaigh (archaic) 		ocrasacha
Comparative níos ocrasaí
Superlative is ocrasaí

Noun

ocrasach m (genitive singular ocrasaigh, nominative plural ocrasaigh)

  1. Alternative form of ocrach (“hungry person”)

Declension

Declension of ocrasach (first declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative ocrasach ocrasaigh
vocative a ocrasaigh a ocrasacha
genitive ocrasaigh ocrasach
dative ocrasach ocrasaigh
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an t-ocrasach na hocrasaigh
genitive an ocrasaigh na n-ocrasach
dative leis an ocrasach
don ocrasach 		leis na hocrasaigh

Mutation

Mutated forms of ocrasach
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
ocrasach n-ocrasach hocrasach t-ocrasach

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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