coscrach

Irish

Alternative forms

  • coscarach, coscarthach
  • cosccrach, cosgarach, cosgarthach, cosgrach (obsolete)[1]

Etymology

From Middle Irish coscarach, coscrach (“victorious, triumphant”).[2] By surface analysis, coscair +‎ -ach.

Adjective

coscrach (genitive singular masculine coscraigh, genitive singular feminine coscraí, plural coscracha, comparative coscraí)

  1. bloodcurdling
  2. shattering, stunning, shocking
  3. distressing, harrowing, agonizing, nerve-racking
  4. (literary) victorious, triumphant
  5. heartrending, heartbreaking
  6. moving (that causes someone to feel emotion), wrenching

Declension

Declension of coscrach
Positive singular plural
masculine feminine strong noun weak noun
nominative coscrach choscrach coscracha;
choscracha2
vocative choscraigh coscracha
genitive coscraí coscracha coscrach
dative coscrach;
choscrach1 		choscrach;
choscraigh (archaic) 		coscracha;
choscracha2
Comparative níos coscraí
Superlative is coscraí

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

Synonyms

  • (distressing, harrowing, agonizing): anacrach, léanmhar
  • (victorious, triumphant): caithréimeach

Derived terms

  • Coscrach (given name)
  • Mac Coscraigh (surname)
    • English: McCoskrie
  • Ó Coscraigh (surname)

Mutation

Mutated forms of coscrach
radical lenition eclipsis
coscrach choscrach gcoscrach

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

References

  1. ^ “coscrach”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cosc(a)rach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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