aerach

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish aerach (“airy, pleasant; light-hearted, gay, frivolous”); aer (“air”) +‎ -ach. The sense ‘homosexual’ is a semantic loan from English gay.

Pronunciation

Adjective

aerach (genitive singular masculine aeraigh, genitive singular feminine aeraí, plural aeracha, comparative aeraí)

  1. airy
  2. lighthearted, gay; lively, frolicsome
  3. flighty, giddy
  4. (sexuality, LGBTQ) gay, homosexual
    Synonyms: bán, homaighnéasach
  5. synonym of aerachtúil (“eerie”)

Declension

Declension of aerach
Positive singular plural
masculine feminine strong noun weak noun
nominative aerach aerach aeracha
vocative aeraigh aeracha
genitive aeraí aeracha aerach
dative aerach aerach;
aeraigh (archaic) 		aeracha
Comparative níos aeraí
Superlative is aeraí

Descendants

  • → Yola: earnough

Mutation

Mutated forms of aerach
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
aerach n-aerach haerach not applicable

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

Further reading

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