giorracht

Irish

Alternative forms

  • gearracht, gioracht, giorrachd (obsolete)[1]

Etymology

From giorra +‎ -acht.

Pronunciation

Noun

giorracht f (genitive singular giorrachta)

  1. shortness, brevity
    Synonyms: gairide, giorra
  2. nearness, closeness
    Synonym: gaireacht

Declension

Declension of giorracht (third declension, no plural)
bare forms
singular
nominative giorracht
vocative a ghiorracht
genitive giorrachta
dative giorracht
forms with the definite article
singular
nominative an ghiorracht
genitive na giorrachta
dative leis an ngiorracht
don ghiorracht

Derived terms

  • a fhad is a ghiorracht (“the entire thing, the long and the short of it”)
  • i ngiorracht (“within (a distance)”)
  • in aon ghiorracht (“anywhere near”)
  • téigh i ngiorracht (“become shorter”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of giorracht
radical lenition eclipsis
giorracht ghiorracht ngiorracht

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

References

  1. ^ “giorracht”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 261, page 133
  3. ^ Ó Sé, Diarmuid (2000) Gaeilge Chorca Dhuibhne [The Irish of Corkaguiny] (in Irish), Institiúid Teangeolaíochta Éireann [Linguistics Institute of Ireland], →ISBN, section 20, page 28
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 “giorracht”, in Irish Pronunciation Database, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025

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