guaireach

Irish

Etymology 1

From guaire (“bristle”) +‎ -ach.

Adjective

guaireach (genitive singular masculine guairigh, genitive singular feminine guairí, plural guaireacha, comparative guairí)

1. bristly, setaceous

Declension

Declension of guaireach

	Singular		Plural (m/f)
Positive	Masculine	Feminine	(strong noun)	(weak noun)
Nominative	guaireach	ghuaireach	guaireacha; ghuaireacha²
Vocative	ghuairigh		guaireacha
Genitive		guairí	guaireacha	guaireach
Dative	guaireach; ghuaireach¹	ghuaireach; ghuairigh (archaic)	guaireacha; ghuaireacha²
Comparative	níos guairí
Superlative	is guairí

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

• guaireachán m (“bristly creature or thing; person with stubbly beard”)

Etymology 2

From Old Irish gúairech (“bristles”).

Noun

guaireach f (genitive singular guairí)

1. rough hair, bristles

Declension

Declension of guaireach

Second declension

Bare forms (no plural form of this noun) Case Singular Nominative guaireach Vocative a ghuaireach Genitive guairí Dative guaireach

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Nominative an ghuaireach Genitive na guairí Dative leis an nguaireach don ghuaireach

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
guaireach	ghuaireach	nguaireach
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “guaireach”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “guaireach”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024

References

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “guaireach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “gúairech”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language