From Old Irish uchtach (“breast-plate, stomacher, poitrel or breast ornament for horses”), from ucht (“breast, bosom; lap; the breast of an animal”).
uchtach m (genitive singular uchtaigh, nominative plural uchtaigh)
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From Old Irish uchtach (“elevation, hillock; a hill, height or steep, the front of a hill; the breast of a mountain, an acclivity”), from ucht (“breast, bosom; lap”).
uchtach m (genitive singular uchtaigh, nominative plural uchtaigh)
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uchtach m (genitive singular uchtaigh)
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From ucht (“chest; breast, bosom”) + -ach (adjectival suffix).
uchtach (genitive singular masculine uchtaigh, genitive singular feminine uchtaí, plural uchtacha)
| singular | plural (m/f) | |||
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| Positive | masculine | feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
| nominative | uchtach | uchtach | uchtacha | |
| vocative | uchtaigh | uchtacha | ||
| genitive | uchtaí | uchtacha | uchtach | |
| dative | uchtach | uchtach; uchtaigh (archaic) |
uchtacha | |
| Comparative | níos uchtaí | |||
| Superlative | is uchtaí | |||
| radical | eclipsis | with h-prothesis | with t-prothesis |
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| uchtach | n-uchtach | huchtach | t-uchtach |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.