cathrach

Irish

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

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Noun

cathrach m (genitive singular cathraigh)

  1. (collective) cluster of beehive huts
Declension
Declension of cathrach

First declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun)

Case Singular
Nominative cathrach
Vocative a chathraigh
Genitive cathraigh
Dative cathrach

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular
Nominative an cathrach
Genitive an chathraigh
Dative leis an gcathrach

don chathrach

Noun

cathrach f sg

  1. genitive singular of cathair (“city”)

Mutation
Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
cathrach chathrach gcathrach
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References
  1. Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 50

Further reading

Old Irish

Noun

cathrach f

  1. inflection of cathair (“stone enclosure, fortress, castle; dwelling; monastic settlement, enclosure; monastery, convent ; fortified city, city”):
    1. genitive singular
    2. genitive dual
    3. genitive plural

Mutation
Old Irish mutation
RadicalLenitionNasalization
cathrach chathrach cathrach
pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Scottish Gaelic

Noun

cathrach f sg

  1. genitive singular of cathair (“chair, seat, bench, throne”)

Noun

cathrach f sg

  1. genitive singular of cathair (“town, city”)

Noun

cathrach f sg

  1. genitive singular of cathair (“gig; bed; stock, colewort, cabbage; plot (of land); guard, sentinel, warder”)

Mutation
Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical Lenition
cathrachchathrach
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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