suarach
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Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Irish súarrach, súairrech.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]suarach (genitive singular masculine suaraigh, genitive singular feminine suaraí, plural suaracha, comparative suaraí)
Declension
[edit]Declension of suarach
Singular | Plural (m/f) | |||
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Positive | Masculine | Feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
Nominative | suarach | shuarach | suaracha; shuaracha² | |
Vocative | shuaraigh | suaracha | ||
Genitive | suaraí | suaracha | suarach | |
Dative | suarach; shuarach¹ |
shuarach; shuaraigh (archaic) |
suaracha; shuaracha² | |
Comparative | níos suaraí | |||
Superlative | is suaraí |
¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.
Derived terms
[edit]- páipéar suarach m (“rag”)
- suarachán m (“petty, insignificant, person; mean, contemptible, person”)
- suarachas m (“pettiness, paltriness, insignificance; meanness, sordidness”)
Related terms
[edit]- suaraigh (“demean”, transitive verb)
- suaraíocht f (“meanness, insignificance”)
Mutation
[edit]Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
suarach | shuarach after an, tsuarach |
not applicable |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading
[edit]- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “suarach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “súarrach, súairrech”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Scottish Gaelic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Irish súarrach, súairrech.
Adjective
[edit]suarach (comparative suaraiche)
- abject, base
- contemptible, degenerate, despised, mean, vile, petty
- Tha mi ga cur suarach. ― I despise her.
- indifferent
- ignoble inferior, negligible, shoddy, trashy, tawdry
- silly, trivial, unimportant, valueless
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- Edward Dwelly (1911) “suarach”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary][1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “súarrach, súairrech”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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- Irish terms inherited from Old Irish
- Irish terms derived from Old Irish
- Irish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Irish lemmas
- Irish adjectives
- Irish adjectives suffixed with -ach
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- Scottish Gaelic terms derived from Old Irish
- Scottish Gaelic lemmas
- Scottish Gaelic adjectives
- Scottish Gaelic terms with usage examples