ocrach

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Irish occorach (“hungry”)[2] (compare occoras (“craving; desire, need”), modern ocras (“hunger”)).

Pronunciation

Adjective

ocrach (genitive singular masculine ocrasaigh, genitive singular feminine ocraí, plural ocracha, comparative ocraí)

  1. hungry, peckish
  2. (nominalized, masculine) hungry person

Declension

Declension of ocrach
Positive singular plural
masculine feminine strong noun weak noun
nominative ocrach ocrach ocracha
vocative ocraigh ocracha
genitive ocraí ocracha ocrach
dative ocrach ocrach;
ocraigh (archaic) 		ocracha
Comparative níos ocraí
Superlative is ocraí

Substantivized:

Declension of ocrach (first declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative ocrach ocraigh
vocative a ocraigh a ocracha
genitive ocraigh ocrach
dative ocrach ocraigh
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an t-ocrach na hocraigh
genitive an ocraigh na n-ocrach
dative leis an ocrach
don ocrach 		leis na hocraigh

Synonyms

  • (hungry person): ocrachán

Derived terms

  • ocrachán m (“hungry person; miserly person”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of ocrach
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
ocrach n-ocrach hocrach t-ocrach

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

References

  1. ^ “ocrach”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “occorach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ 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
  4. ^ Lucas, Leslie W. (1979) Grammar of Ros Goill Irish Co. Donegal (Studies in Irish Language and Literature, Department of Celtic, Q.U.B.; vol. 5), Institute of Irish Studies, The Queen’s University of Belfast, page 285
  5. ^ Sommerfelt, Alf (1922) The Dialect of Torr, County Donegal, volume I: Phonology, Christiania [Oslo]: Videnskapsselskapet i Kristiania, section 414, page 124

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