portach

Irish

From port (“river bank”) +‎ -ach (relational suffix, with the sense of ‘connected or involved with, belonging to, having’).

(Munster) IPA^(key): /pˠəɾˠˈt̪ˠax/^[1]
(Connacht) IPA^(key): /ˈpˠoɾˠt̪ˠəx/ ~ /ˈpˠuɾˠt̪ˠəx/^[2]
(Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈpˠʌɾˠt̪ˠa(x)/^[3], /ˈpˠoɾˠt̪ˠa(x)/^[4], /ˈpˠɔɾˠt̪ˠa(x)/^[5]

portach m (genitive singular portaigh, nominative plural portaigh)

Declension of portach (first declension)

forms with the definite article
	singular	plural
nominative	an portach	na portaigh
genitive	an phortaigh	na bportach
dative	leis an bportach don phortach	leis na portaigh

Mutated forms of *portach*
radical	lenition	eclipsis
portach	phortach	bportach

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

^ 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
^ de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1975) The Irish of Cois Fhairrge, Co. Galway: A Phonetic Study, revised edition, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, § 451, page 90
^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 23, page 12
^ Wagner, Heinrich (1959) Gaeilge Theilinn: Foghraidheacht, Gramadach, Téacsanna [The Irish of Teelin: Phonetics, Grammar, Texts] (in Irish), Institiúid Ard-Léinn Bhaile Átha Cliath [Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies], section 490, page 189; reprinted 1979
^ Hughes, A. J. (1986) The Gaelic of Tangaveane and Commeen, County Donegal (texts, phonology, aspects of grammar and a vocabulary) (doctoral thesis), Faculty of Arts, Queen’s University of Belfast, page 464

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