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Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish súarrach, súairrech.
Pronunciation
Adjective
suarach (genitive singular masculine suaraigh, genitive singular feminine suaraí, plural suaracha, comparative suaraí)
- paltry, petty, insignificant; mean, contemptible
- airy, frivolous
Declension
¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.
Derived terms
- páipéar suarach m (“rag”)
- suarachán m (“petty, insignificant, person; mean, contemptible, person”)
- suarachas m (“pettiness, paltriness, insignificance; meanness, sordidness”)
Mutation
| Irish mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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| suarach
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shuarach
after an, tsuarach
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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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Further reading
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “suarach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “súarrach, súairrech”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
From Old Irish súarrach, súairrech.[1]
Pronunciation
Adjective
suarach (comparative suaraiche)
- abject, base
- contemptible, degenerate, despised, mean, vile, petty
- Tha mi ga cur suarach. ― I despise her.
- indifferent
- ignoble inferior, negligible, shoddy, trashy, tawdry
- silly, trivial, unimportant, valueless
Derived terms
References
- ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “súarrach, súairrech”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- ^ Oftedal, M. (1956) A linguistic survey of the Gaelic dialects of Scotland, Vol. III: The Gaelic of Leurbost, Isle of Lewis, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap
Further reading
- Edward Dwelly (1911) “suarach”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN