bachlach

Irish

Pronunciation

  • (Kerry) IPA(key): /ˈbˠɑhəl̪ˠəx/[1]

Etymology 1

Adjective

bachlach (genitive singular masculine bachlaigh, genitive singular feminine bachlaí, plural bachlacha)

  1. alternative form of bachallach (“curly, ringleted”)
    • 1939, Peig Sayers, “Inghean an Cheannaidhe”, in Marie-Louise Sjoestedt, Description d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (Bibliothèque de l'École des Hautes Études; 270) (overall work in French), Paris: Librairie Honoré Champion, page 197:
      Do bhí a ceann bachlach bán beárrtha aici, agus culath duine uasail uirthi; budh dhóigh leat gur fear í insan am san.
      She had shaved her curly blonde head and put on a gentleman’s suit; you would have thought she was a man at that time.
Inflection
Declension of bachlach
Positive singular plural
masculine feminine strong noun weak noun
nominative bachlach bhachlach bachlacha;
bhachlacha2
vocative bhachlaigh bachlacha
genitive bachlaí bachlacha bachlach
dative bachlach;
bhachlach1 		bhachlach;
bhachlaigh (archaic) 		bachlacha;
bhachlacha2
Comparative níos bachlaí
Superlative is bachlaí

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

Etymology 2

Noun

bachlach m (genitive singular bachlaigh, nominative plural bachlaigh)

  1. alternative form of bathlach (“clumsy person; dilapidated building”)
Declension
Declension of bachlach (first declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative bachlach bachlaigh
vocative a bhachlaigh a bhachlacha
genitive bachlaigh bachlach
dative bachlach bachlaigh
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an bachlach na bachlaigh
genitive an bhachlaigh na mbachlach
dative leis an mbachlach
don bhachlach 		leis na bachlaigh

Mutation

Mutated forms of bachlach
radical lenition eclipsis
bachlach bhachlach mbachlach

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

References

  1. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1938) Description d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Description of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ancienne Honoré Champion, page 191

Middle Irish

Etymology

From bachall +‎ -ach.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbaxlax/, /ˈbaxləx/

Noun

bachlach m

  1. labourer, serf, bondman
  2. clown, churl

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Irish: bathlach
  • Scottish Gaelic: balach

Mutation

Mutation of bachlach
radical lenition nasalization
bachlach bachlach
pronounced with /β(ʲ)-/ 		mbachlach

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

Further reading

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