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earrach
earrach
Irish
Noun
earrach m (genitive singular earraigh, nominative plural earraigh)
- spring (season)
Declension
Declension of earrach
First declension
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Bare forms:
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Forms with the definite article:
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See also
| Seasons in Irish · séasúir (layout · text) | |||
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| earrach (“spring”) | samhradh (“summer”) | fómhar (“autumn”) | geimhreadh (“winter”) |
Mutation
| Irish mutation | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Radical | Eclipsis | with h-prothesis | with t-prothesis |
| earrach | n-earrach | hearrach | t-earrach |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | |||
References
- Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, ISBN 978-90-04-17336-1, page 417
- “1 errach” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
- “earraċ” in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, Irish Texts Society, 1927, by Patrick S. Dinneen.
- Franz Nikolaus Finck, 1899, Die araner mundart, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, vol. II, 26.
- "earrach" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
From Old Irish errach, from Proto-Celtic *wesrakos, enlargement of Proto-Celtic *wesr-, from Proto-Indo-European *wósr̥ (compare Latin vēr, Lithuanian vãsara (“summer”), Polish wiosna, Sanskrit वसन्त (vasanta, “summer”), वसर् (vasar, “in the morning”)).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈjarˠəx/
Noun
earrach m (genitive singular earraich, plural earraichean or earraich)
- spring (season)
- Th' an t-earrach a' tighinn. ― Spring is coming.
Mutation
| Scottish Gaelic mutation | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Radical | Eclipsis | with h-prothesis | with t-prothesis |
| earrach | n-earrach | h-earrach | t-earrach |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | |||
See also
References
- Faclair Gàidhlig Dwelly Air Loidhne, Dwelly, Edward (1911), Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic-English Dictionary (10th ed.), Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, ISBN 0 901771 92 9
- “1 errach” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.