cathrach

Irish

Etymology 1

Noun

cathrach m (genitive singular cathraigh)

  1. (collective) cluster of beehive huts
Declension
Declension of cathrach

First declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun)

Case Singular
Nominative cathrach
Vocative a chathraigh
Genitive cathraigh
Dative cathrach

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular
Nominative an cathrach
Genitive an chathraigh
Dative leis an gcathrach

don chathrach

Etymology 2

Noun

cathrach f sg

  1. genitive singular of cathair (“city; enclosed church establishment; monastic city; circular stone fort; dwelling(-place); bed, lair”)

Mutation
Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
cathrach chathrach gcathrach
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

Old Irish

Noun

cathrach f

  1. inflection of cathair (“stone enclosure, fortress, castle; dwelling; monastic settlement, enclosure; monastery, convent ; fortified city, city”):
    1. genitive singular
    2. genitive dual
    3. genitive plural

Mutation
Old Irish mutation
RadicalLenitionNasalization
cathrach chathrach cathrach
pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Scottish Gaelic

Noun 1

cathrach f sg

  1. genitive singular of cathair (“chair, seat, bench, throne”)

Noun 2

cathrach f sg

  1. genitive singular of cathair (“town, city”)

Noun 3

cathrach f sg

  1. genitive singular of cathair (“gig; bed; stock, colewort, cabbage; plot (of land); guard, sentinel, warder”)

Mutation
Scottish Gaelic mutation
RadicalLenition
cathrachchathrach
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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