ulcha

Irish

From Old Irish ulcha, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pulu- (“hair”).

ulcha f (genitive singular ulcha, nominative plural ulchaí)

Declension of ulcha

Bare forms

Irish mutation
Radical	Eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
ulcha	n-ulcha	hulcha	not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

From Proto-Indo-European *pulu- (“hair”). Cognate with Latin pilus.

ulcha f

Feminine iā-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ulchae^L	ulchai^L	ulchai
Vocative	ulchae^L	ulchai^L	ulchai
Accusative	ulchai^N	ulchai^L	ulchai
Genitive	ulchae	ulchae^L	ulchae^N
Dative	ulchai^L	ulchaib	ulchaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: ^H = triggers aspiration ^L = triggers lenition ^N = triggers nasalization

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
ulcha (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)	unchanged	n-ulcha
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “ulcha”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language