catachas

Irish

Etymology

From cat +‎ -achas.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkɑt̪ˠəxəsˠ/[1]

Noun

catachas m (genitive singular catachais)

  1. heat (condition where a mammal is aroused sexually or where it is especially fertile) in cats
  2. caterwauling

Declension

Declension of catachas (first declension, no plural)
bare forms
singular
nominative catachas
vocative a chatachais
genitive catachais
dative catachas
forms with the definite article
singular
nominative an catachas
genitive an chatachais
dative leis an gcatachas
don chatachas

Mutation

Mutated forms of catachas
radical lenition eclipsis
catachas chatachas gcatachas

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

References

  1. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), Zweiter Band: Wörterbuch [Second volume: Dictionary], Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 148

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