gorach

See also: górach and gòrach

Irish

Etymology

From gor +‎ -ach.

Pronunciation

  • (Connacht) IPA(key): /ˈɡɔɾˠəx/
  • (Ulster) IPA(key): /ˈɡʌɾˠa(x)/

Adjective

gorach (genitive singular masculine goraigh, genitive singular feminine goraí, plural goracha, comparative goraí)

  1. inflamed
  2. heated

Declension

Declension of gorach
Positive singular plural
masculine feminine strong noun weak noun
nominative gorach ghorach goracha;
ghoracha2
vocative ghoraigh goracha
genitive goraí goracha gorach
dative gorach;
ghorach1 		ghorach;
ghoraigh (archaic) 		goracha;
ghoracha2
Comparative níos goraí
Superlative is goraí

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

Mutation

Mutated forms of gorach
radical lenition eclipsis
gorach ghorach ngorach

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

Further reading

  • “gorach”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  • Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “goraċ”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 378
  • Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “gorach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

Lower Sorbian

Noun

gorach

  1. superseded spelling of górach
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