adharcach

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Irish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Middle Irish adarcach. By surface analysis, adharc (horn) +‎ -ach (adjectival suffix). The sense ‘sexually aroused’ is a semantic loan from English horny.

Adjective[edit]

adharcach (genitive singular masculine adharcaigh, genitive singular feminine adharcaí, plural adharcacha, comparative adharcaí)

  1. horned, horny
  2. horny (sexually aroused)

Declension[edit]

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Mutation[edit]

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

Further reading[edit]

Scottish Gaelic[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old Irish adarcach, from adarc (horn). By surface analysis, adharc (horn) +‎ -ach (adjectival suffix).

Adjective[edit]

adharcach (genitive singular masculine adharcaich, genitive singular feminine adharcaiche, comparative adharcaiche)

  1. horned, horny
  2. (heraldry) attired

Declension[edit]

Case Masculine singular Feminine singular Plural
Nominative adharcach adharcach adharcach
Vocative adharcaich adharcach adharcach
Genitive adharcaich adharcaiche adharcach
Dative adharcach adharcaich adharcach

Derived terms[edit]

Mutation[edit]

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

Further reading[edit]

  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “adharcach”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “adarcach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language