aorachas

Irish

Etymology

From aorach (“satirical”) +‎ -as.

Noun

aorachas m (genitive singular aorachais)

1. (act of) satirizing, fault-finding; lampoonery

Declension

Declension of aorachas

First declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun) Case Singular Nominative aorachas Vocative a aorachais Genitive aorachais Dative aorachas

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Nominative an t-aorachas Genitive an aorachais Dative leis an aorachas don aorachas

Related terms

• aoir (“lampoon, satire”)
• aor (“satirize, lampoon”, transitive verb)
• aorthóir (“satirist, lampooner”)

 

Mutation

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

Further reading

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