galrach

Irish

Etymology 1

From galar (“sickness, disease”) +‎ -ach (adjectival suffix).

Adjective

galrach (genitive singular masculine galraigh, genitive singular feminine galraí, plural galracha, comparative galraí)

  1. diseased, infected
  2. sickly, morbid
  3. pathological
Declension
Declension of galrach
Singular Plural (m/f)
Positive Masculine Feminine (strong noun) (weak noun)
Nominative galrach ghalrach galracha;
ghalracha²
Vocative ghalraigh galracha
Genitive galraí galracha galrach
Dative galrach;
ghalrach¹		 ghalrach;
ghalraigh (archaic)		 galracha;
ghalracha²
Comparative níos galraí
Superlative is galraí

¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

Alternative forms
Derived terms
  • galrachán m (“sickly creature or thing”)
  • galracht f (“sickliness, morbidity”)

Etymology 2

Noun

galrach m (genitive singular galraigh, nominative plural galraigh)

  1. Alternative form of garlach (“child, kid; brat, urchin”)
Declension
Declension of galrach

First declension

Bare forms:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative galrach galraigh
Vocative a ghalraigh a ghalracha
Genitive galraigh galrach
Dative galrach galraigh

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an galrach na galraigh
Genitive an ghalraigh na ngalrach
Dative leis an ngalrach

don ghalrach

 leis na galraigh

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

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