occoras

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• occorus

Etymology

From od- +‎ cara +‎ -as

Noun

occoras m

1. (literary) hunger; craving; desire

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Synonyms

• gortae

Related terms

• occorach

Descendants

• Irish: ocras
• Manx: accrys
• Scottish Gaelic: acras

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
occoras (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)	unchanged	n-occoras
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “occoras”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language