tarrach

Irish

Pronunciation

Adjective

tarrach (genitive singular masculine tarraigh, genitive singular feminine tarraí, plural tarracha, not comparable)

  1. Ulster form of torrach (“pregnant”)

Declension

Declension of tarrach
Positive singular plural
masculine feminine strong noun weak noun
nominative tarrach tharrach tarracha;
tharracha2
vocative tharraigh tarracha
genitive tarraí tarracha tarrach
dative tarrach;
tharrach1 		tharrach;
tharraigh (archaic) 		tarracha;
tharracha2
Comparative (not comparable)
Superlative (not comparable)

1 When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
2 When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

Mutation

Mutated forms of tarrach
radical lenition eclipsis
tarrach tharrach dtarrach

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

References

  1. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 95

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *tarr-, earlier *tars-, from the zero grade of Proto-Indo-European *tres- (“to tremble in fear”). Cognate with Latin terreō (“to frighten”), Sanskrit त्रसति (trasati, “to fear”), Ancient Greek τρέω (tréō, “to flee in fear”). Suffixed with -ach.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈtar͈ax]

Adjective

tarrach

  1. (hapax legomenon) fearful

Usage notes

Attested only as an entry in Cormac's Glossary; not used in any extant text.

Quotations

  • c. 900, Sanas Cormaic, from the Yellow Book of Lecan, Corm. Y 1257
    tarrach .i. uamnach, quia fit tor .i. ecla
    tarrach i.e. fearful, because tor i.e. fear comes into being.

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