colgach

Irish

Alternative forms

  • cealgach, cealgánta, coilgeach, colgánta, colgdha[1]

Etymology

From colg +‎ -ach.

Pronunciation

Adjective

colgach (genitive singular masculine colgaigh, genitive singular feminine colgaí, plural colgacha, comparative colgaí)

  1. bristling (reacting with anger or indignation)
  2. prickly (covered with sharp points), awny (having awns; bearded, bristly)
    líon colgach ― bearded flax
  3. prickly (easily irritated), irascible, irritable, peppery, ratty (annoyed), waspish
  4. sharp (acrimonious), truculent
  5. bitterly cold
  6. angry (dark and stormy, menacing)
    spéir cholgach ― angry sky

Declension

Declension of colgach
Positive singular plural
masculine feminine strong noun weak noun
nominative colgach cholgach colgacha;
cholgacha2
vocative cholgaigh colgacha
genitive colgaí colgacha colgach
dative colgach;
cholgach1 		cholgach;
cholgaigh (archaic) 		colgacha;
cholgacha2
Comparative níos colgaí
Superlative is colgaí

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

Derived terms

  • cearc cholgach (“shuttlecock”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of colgach
radical lenition eclipsis
colgach cholgach gcolgach

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

References

  1. ^ “colgach”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), Zweiter Band: Wörterbuch [Second volume: Dictionary], Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 157

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