salachar

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Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish salchar. Compare salach (“dirty”).

Pronunciation

(Munster) IPA^(key): /sˠəˈl̪ˠɑxəɾˠ/
(Connacht, Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈsˠalˠəxəɾˠ/, /ˈsˠal̪ˠəxəɾˠ/

Noun

salachar m (genitive singular salachair)

dirt
Synonym: brocamas
ordure
sordidness; impurity, obscenity; scurrilousness
dross
weed infestation
spattering, sprinkling
drizzle

Declension

Declension of salachar (first declension, no plural)

bare forms
case	singular
nominative	salachar
vocative	a shalachair
genitive	salachair
dative	salachar

forms with the definite article
case	singular
nominative	an salachar
genitive	an tsalachair
dative	leis an salachar don salachar

Derived terms

buacaire salachair (“mud-cock”)
coirt salachair (“coat of dirt”)
salachar airgid (“silver dross”)
salachar báistí (“drizzling rain”)
salachar béil (“thrush; orf”)
salachar cainte (“smutty talk”)
salachar ceo (“drizzling mist”)
salachar craicinn (“skin eruption”)
salachar duine (“human ordure”)
salachar éan (“bird-droppings”)
salachar gaoil (“distant relationship”)
salachar rásúir (“barber's itch”)
salachar umha (“verdigris”)
salacharaíl (“smattering; drizzling”)
smál salachair (“dirt-stain”)
spota salachair (“speck of dirt”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of *salachar*
radical	lenition	eclipsis
salachar	shalachar after an, tsalachar	not applicable

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

Further reading

Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “salachar”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “salachar”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
“salachar”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024
Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 32

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