mosach
Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Irish mosach, from Proto-Celtic *mussāko-, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂d-.
Adjective
[edit]mosach (genitive singular masculine mosaigh, genitive singular feminine mosaí, plural mosacha, comparative mosaí)
Declension
[edit]Declension of mosach
| Singular | Plural (m/f) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Positive | Masculine | Feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
| Nominative | mosach | mhosach | mosacha; mhosacha² | |
| Vocative | mhosaigh | mosacha | ||
| Genitive | mosaí | mosacha | mosach | |
| Dative | mosach; mhosach¹ |
mhosach; mhosaigh (archaic) |
mosacha; mhosacha² | |
| Comparative | níos mosaí | |||
| Superlative | is mosaí | |||
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]- caidhp mhosach (“lawyer's wig”)
- éadach mosach (“nappy cloth”)
Mutation
[edit]| Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| mosach | mhosach | not applicable |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
References
[edit]- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
Further reading
[edit]- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “mosach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- “shaggy”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2024
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “mosach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “mosach”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- “mosach”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024