suarachas

Irish

Etymology

From suarach (“paltry, petty, insignificant; mean, contemptible”) +‎ -as (abstract nominal suffix).

Noun

suarachas m (genitive singular suarachais)

1. pettiness, paltriness, insignificance
2. meanness, sordidness

Declension

Declension of suarachas

First declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun) Case Singular Nominative suarachas Vocative a shuarachais Genitive suarachais Dative suarachas

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Nominative an suarachas Genitive an tsuarachais Dative leis an suarachas don suarachas

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
suarachas	shuarachas after an, tsuarachas	not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

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