ocrasach

Irish

Etymology

From ocras (“hunger”) +‎ -ach (adjectival suffix).

Adjective

ocrasach (genitive singular masculine ocrasaigh, plural ocrasacha)

1. Alternative form of ocrach (“hungry; marked by, inducing, hunger; poor, barren; poverty-stricken; mean, miserly”)

Declension

Declension of ocrasach

	Singular		Plural (m/f)
Positive	Masculine	Feminine	(strong noun)	(weak noun)
Nominative	ocrasach	ocrasach	ocrasacha
Vocative	ocrasaigh		ocrasacha
Genitive		ocrasaí	ocrasacha	ocrasach
Dative	ocrasach	ocrasach; ocrasaigh (archaic)	ocrasacha
Comparative	níos ocrasaí
Superlative	is ocrasaí

Noun

ocrasach m (genitive singular ocrasaigh, nominative plural ocrasaigh)

1. Alternative form of ocrach (“hungry person”)

Declension

Declension of ocrasach

First declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative ocrasach ocrasaigh Vocative a ocrasaigh a ocrasacha Genitive ocrasaigh ocrasach Dative ocrasach ocrasaigh

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an t-ocrasach na hocrasaigh Genitive an ocrasaigh na n-ocrasach Dative leis an ocrasach don ocrasach leis na hocrasaigh

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
ocrasach	n-ocrasach	hocrasach	t-ocrasach
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “ocrasach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN