bodach

English

Noun

bodach (plural bodachs)

  1. A trickster or bogeyman figure in Gaelic folklore.

Irish

Pronunciation

  • (Munster) IPA(key): /bˠəˈd̪ˠɑx/
  • (Connacht) IPA(key): /ˈbˠɔd̪ˠəx/
  • (Ulster) IPA(key): /ˈbˠʌd̪ˠa(h)/

Etymology 1

bod (“penis”) +‎ -ach (adjectival suffix)

Adjective

bodach (genitive singular masculine bodaigh, genitive singular feminine bodaí, plural bodacha, comparative bodaí)

  1. (archaic) lusty, virile
Declension
Declension of bodach
Positive singular plural
masculine feminine strong noun weak noun
nominative bodach bhodach bodacha;
bhodacha2
vocative bhodaigh bodacha
genitive bodaí bodacha bodach
dative bodach;
bhodach1 		bhodach;
bhodaigh (archaic) 		bodacha;
bhodacha2
Comparative níos bodaí
Superlative is bodaí

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

From Middle Irish botach (“serf, rustic, peasant”).

Noun

bodach m (genitive singular bodaigh, nominative plural bodaigh)

  1. boor, churl, lout
    Proverb: Tabhair rogha don bhodach agus tógfaidh sé an díogha. ― Give a beggar a horse and he will ride to the devil.
  2. male crab
Declension
Declension of bodach (first declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative bodach bodaigh
vocative a bhodaigh a bhodacha
genitive bodaigh bodach
dative bodach bodaigh
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an bodach na bodaigh
genitive an bhodaigh na mbodach
dative leis an mbodach
don bhodach 		leis na bodaigh
Derived terms
  • An Bodach (“Orion”)
  • bodach bóthair (“vagrant, tramp”)
  • bodach buí (“pollock”)
  • bodach donn, bodach rua (“cod”)
  • bodach gliogair (“yellow rattle”)
  • bodach gorm (“field scabious”)
  • bodach mór (“ling; bigwig”)
  • bodachán (“snipe; measure”)
  • garbhán bodaigh (“coarse, wild, kale”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of bodach
radical lenition eclipsis
bodach bhodach mbodach

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

Further reading

Scots

Etymology

Borrowed from Scottish Gaelic bodach.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbɔ.dəx/

Noun

bodach (plural bodachs)

  1. (dialectal) old man

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Middle Irish botach (“serf, rustic, peasant”).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈb̥ɔt̪əx/, (Lewis) [ˈb̥ɔ̞t̪əx][2]
  • Hyphenation: bod‧ach

Noun

bodach m (genitive singular bodaich, plural bodaich)

  1. old man

Derived terms

See also

References

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “botach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Oftedal, M. (1956) A linguistic survey of the Gaelic dialects of Scotland, Vol. III: The Gaelic of Leurbost, Isle of Lewis, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap

Further reading

  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “bodach”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
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