collach
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Irish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old Irish cullach (“boar; stallion”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
collach m (genitive singular collaigh, nominative plural collaigh)
- boar (male pig)
- male crab
- Synonym: collach portáin
- crude, fleshy, person
Declension[edit]
Declension of collach
Bare forms:
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Forms with the definite article:
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Derived terms[edit]
- fia-chollach (“wild boar”)
Mutation[edit]
Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
collach | chollach | gcollach |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading[edit]
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “collach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “cullach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Entries containing “collach” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
- Entries containing “collach” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
- Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 79