curach

Irish

From Middle Irish curach, from Proto-Celtic *korukos (“leather boat”) (from which also Welsh corwg (“coracle”)), probably from Proto-Indo-European *(s)koro- (“leather”) (from which also Latin corium).

curach f (genitive singular curaí, nominative plural curacha)

Declension of curach

Second declension

Bare forms

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	curach	curacha
Vocative	a churach	a churacha
Genitive	curaí	curach
Dative	curach curaigh (archaic, dialectal)	curacha

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	an churach	na curacha
Genitive	na curaí	na gcurach
Dative	leis an gcurach leis an gcuraigh (archaic, dialectal) don churach don churaigh (archaic, dialectal)	leis na curacha

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
curach	churach	gcurach
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

“1 curach” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
“curaċ” in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, Irish Texts Society, 2nd ed., 1927, by Patrick S. Dinneen.
Finck, F. N. (1899), Die araner mundart, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, vol. II, p. 161.
"curach" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.

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