prácás

See also: praças

Irish

Pronunciation

  • (Munster) IPA(key): /ˈpˠɾˠɑːkəsˠ/[1] (as if spelled prácas)
  • (Connacht) IPA(key): /ˈpˠɾˠɑːkɑːsˠ/
  • (Ulster) IPA(key): /ˈpˠɾˠaːkasˠ/[2]

Noun

prácás m (genitive singular prácáis)

  1. hodgepodge, mess, slop
  2. mess-up, screwup, shambles
  3. botch (action, job, or task that has been performed very badly)

Declension

Declension of prácás (first declension, no plural)
bare forms
singular
nominative prácás
vocative a phrácáis
genitive prácáis
dative prácás
forms with the definite article
singular
nominative an prácás
genitive an phrácáis
dative leis an bprácás
don phrácás

Mutation

Mutated forms of prácás
radical lenition eclipsis
prácás phrácás bprácás

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

References

  1. ^ “prácás”, in Irish Pronunciation Database‎[1], 2013–2024, retrieved 29 January 2021
  2. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 10, page 8

Further reading

  • “prácás”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  • Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “prácás”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 549
  • Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “prácás”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
  • “prácás”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025
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