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Definition 2024
ocrasach
ocrasach
Irish
Adjective
ocrasach (genitive singular masculine ocrasaigh, plural ocrasacha)
- Alternative form of ocrach (“hungry; marked by, inducing, hunger; poor, barren; poverty-stricken; mean, miserly”)
Declension
Declension of ocrasach
| Singular | Plural (m/f) | |||
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| Positive | Masculine | Feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
| Nominative | ocrasach | ocrasach¹ | ocrasacha³ | |
| Vocative | ocrasaigh¹ | ocrasach¹ | ocrasacha | |
| Genitive | ocrasaigh¹ | ocrasaí (obsolete) ocrasaighe |
ocrasacha | ocrasach |
| Dative | ocrasach² | ocrasach¹ (archaic) ocrasaigh¹ |
ocrasacha³ | |
| Comparative | ocrasaí (obsolete) ocrasaighe |
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¹ This form is lenited after a noun if possible.
² This form is lenited if possible when the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
³ This form is lenited if possible when the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.
Noun
ocrasach m (genitive singular ocrasaigh, nominative plural ocrasaigh)
- Alternative form of ocrach (“hungry person”)
Declension
Declension of ocrasach
First declension
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Bare forms:
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Forms with the definite article:
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Mutation
| Irish mutation | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Radical | Eclipsis | with h-prothesis | with t-prothesis |
| ocrasach | n-ocrasach | hocrasach | unchanged |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | |||
References
- "ocrasach" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.