acrach

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From acra (“tool, implement; service, convenience”) +‎ -ach (adjectival suffix).

Adjective

acrach (genitive singular masculine acraigh, genitive singular feminine acraí, plural acracha, comparative acraí)

  1. handy, useful; convenient

Declension
Declension of acrach
Singular Plural (m/f)
Positive Masculine Feminine (strong noun) (weak noun)
Nominative acrach acrach acracha
Vocative acraigh acracha
Genitive acraí acracha acrach
Dative acrach acrach;
acraigh (archaic)		 acracha
Comparative níos acraí
Superlative is acraí

Mutation
Irish mutation
RadicalEclipsiswith h-prothesiswith t-prothesis
acrach n-acrach hacrach not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology 1

From Old Irish occorach.

Adjective

acrach (genitive singular feminine acraiche, comparative acraiche)

  1. hungry
Usage notes
  • Usually used attributively. The usual predicative form is created using acras:
    daoine acrach ― hungry people
    tha an t-acras orra ― they are hungry (literally, “[there] is the hunger on them”)
Alternative forms
Derived terms
  • mion-acrach (“hungry, voracious, ravenous; having a false appetite; eating but little at a time, as an invalid”)

Noun

acrach m

  1. hungry person
Alternative forms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

acrach f

  1. genitive singular of acair (“anchor”)

Mutation
Scottish Gaelic mutation
RadicalEclipsiswith h-prothesiswith t-prothesis
acrachn-acrachh-acracht-acrach
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading
  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “acrach”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “occorach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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