fraoch

Irish

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Middle Irish fráech, from Old Irish froích, fróech, from Proto-Celtic *wroikos (compare Welsh grug, Middle Breton groegan), from an unknown non-Indo-European source (compare Czech vřes, Latvian virsis, Ancient Greek ἐρείκη (ereíkē)).

Noun

fraoch m or f (genitive singular fraoigh or fraoighe)

  1. heather
  2. heath, moor
Declension
Declension of fraoch

First declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun)

Case Singular
Nominative fraoch
Vocative a fhraoigh
Genitive fraoigh
Dative fraoch

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular
Nominative an fraoch
Genitive an fhraoigh
Dative leis an bhfraoch

don fhraoch

Declension of fraoch

Second declension

Bare forms (no plural form of this noun)

Case Singular
Nominative fraoch
Vocative a fhraoch
Genitive fraoighe
Dative fraoch

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular
Nominative an fhraoch
Genitive na fraoighe
Dative leis an bhfraoch

don fhraoch

Synonyms
Derived terms
  • cearc fhraoigh f (“(red) grouse”)
  • coileach fraoigh m (“moor cock, male red grouse”)
  • dallóg fhraoigh f (“shrew-mouse”)
  • dúchoileach fraoigh m (“blackcock, male black grouse”)
  • fraochán1 m (“bilberry, whortleberry”)
  • fraochán2 m (“ring-ouzel”)
  • fraoch bán m (“white heather”)
  • fraoch camógach m (“Mediterranean heather”)
  • fraoch cloigíneach, fraoch fireann, fraoch Lochlannach (“bell-heather”)
  • fraoch coitianta, fraoch mór (“Scotch heather, ling”)
  • fraochdhaite (“heather-mixture”)
  • fraochlach m (“heath”)
  • fraochmhá f (“heath”) (of tract of land)
  • fraochmhar (“heathery”, adjective)
  • fraoch naoscaí m (“cross-leaved heath”)
  • leann fraoigh m (“heather-ale”)
  • luch fhraoigh f (“marmot”)
  • madar fraoigh m (“heath, white, bedstraw”)
  • píobaire fraoigh m (“grasshopper”)

Etymology 2

From Middle Irish fráech m (“rage, fury, fierceness”).

Noun

fraoch m (genitive singular fraoich)

  1. fierceness, fury
Declension
Declension of fraoch

First declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun)

Case Singular
Nominative fraoch
Vocative a fhraoich
Genitive fraoich
Dative fraoch

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular
Nominative an fraoch
Genitive an fhraoich
Dative leis an bhfraoch

don fhraoch

Derived terms
  • fraochnimh f (“venomous anger”)
  • fraochta (“fierce, furious, enraged”, adjective)
  • fraochaíl f (“furiousness; fierce valour”)
  • fraochtacht f (“rage, fury”)

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

Further reading
  • “1 fráech” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
  • “2 fráech” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
  • "fraoch" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
  • Entries containing “fraoch” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
  • Entries containing “fraoch” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Middle Irish fráech, from Old Irish froích, fróech, from Proto-Celtic *wroikos, from a non-Indo-European source.

Noun

fraoch m (genitive singular fraoich, no plural)

  1. heath, heather, ling
  2. bristles
  3. anger
  4. girning expression of countenance

Derived terms

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

References
  • Faclair Gàidhlig Dwelly Air Loidhne, Dwelly, Edward (1911), Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic-English Dictionary (10th ed.), Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • A Pronouncing and Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language (John Grant, Edinburgh, 1925, Compiled by Malcolm MacLennan)
  • “1 fráech” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
  • “2 fráech” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
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