acrach

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology 1

From acra (“tool, implement; service, convenience”) +‎ -ach (adjectival suffix).

Adjective

acrach (genitive singular masculine acraigh, genitive singular feminine acraí, plural acracha, comparative acraí)

  1. handy, useful; convenient
Declension
Declension of acrach
Positive singular plural
masculine feminine strong noun weak noun
nominative acrach acrach acracha
vocative acraigh acracha
genitive acraí acracha acrach
dative acrach acrach;
acraigh (archaic) 		acracha
Comparative níos acraí
Superlative is acraí

Further reading

Etymology 2

Adjective

acrach (genitive singular masculine acraigh, genitive singular feminine acraighe, plural acracha, comparative acraighe)

  1. obsolete form of ocrach (“hungry”)

Further reading

  • Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “acrach”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 4

Mutation

Mutated forms of acrach
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
acrach n-acrach hacrach not applicable

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

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology 1

From Old Irish occorach.

Adjective

acrach (genitive singular feminine acraiche, comparative acraiche)

  1. hungry
Usage notes
  • Usually used attributively. The usual predicative form is created using acras:
    daoine acrach ― hungry people
    tha an t-acras orra ― they are hungry (literally, “[there] is the hunger on them”)
Alternative forms
Derived terms
  • mion-acrach (“hungry, voracious, ravenous; having a false appetite; eating but little at a time, as an invalid”)

Noun

acrach m

  1. hungry person
Alternative forms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

acrach f

  1. genitive singular of acair (“anchor”)

Mutation

Mutation of acrach
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
acrach n-acrach h-acrach t-acrach

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

Further reading

  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “acrach”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “occorach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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