bathlach

Irish

Alternative forms

  • bachlach, bathalach, fathalach, fatharlach[1]
  • bathalóg (only “dilapidated building”)

Etymology

From Middle Irish bachlach (“labourer, churl”).[2]

Pronunciation

  • (Kerry) IPA(key): /ˈbˠɑhəl̪ˠəx/[3]

Noun

bathlach m (genitive singular bathlaigh, nominative plural bathlaigh)

  1. (obsolete) shepherd
  2. rustic, churl
  3. dilapidated, ramshackle building or other structure

Declension

Declension of bathlach (first declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative bathlach bathlaigh
vocative a bhathlaigh a bhathlacha
genitive bathlaigh bathlach
dative bathlach bathlaigh
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an bathlach na bathlaigh
genitive an bhathlaigh na mbathlach
dative leis an mbathlach
don bhathlach 		leis na bathlaigh

Synonyms

  • (shepherd): aoire
  • (rustic, churl): cábóg
  • (dilapidated building): raingléis

Mutation

Mutated forms of bathlach
radical lenition eclipsis
bathlach bhathlach mbathlach

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

References

  1. ^ “bathlach”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 bachlach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 231, page 117

Further reading

  • Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927) “bachlach”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 68; reprinted with additions 1996, →ISBN
  • Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927) “bathalach; bathlach; báthlach”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 84; reprinted with additions 1996, →ISBN
  • Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “bathlach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
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