collach

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Irish cullach (“boar; stallion”).[2]

Pronunciation

Noun

collach m (genitive singular collaigh, nominative plural collaigh)

  1. boar (male pig)
  2. male crab
    Synonym: collach portáin
  3. crude, fleshy, person

Declension

Declension of collach (first declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative collach collaigh
vocative a chollaigh a chollacha
genitive collaigh collach
dative collach collaigh
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an collach na collaigh
genitive an chollaigh na gcollach
dative leis an gcollach
don chollach 		leis na collaigh

Derived terms

  • fia-chollach (“wild boar”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of collach
radical lenition eclipsis
collach chollach gcollach

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

References

  1. ^ “collach”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cullach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ “collach”, in Irish Pronunciation Database, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025
  4. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), Zweiter Band: Wörterbuch [Second volume: Dictionary], Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 157
  5. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 206, page 79

Further reading

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