sochar

See also: sochař

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish sochar (a good or valid contract; privileges, rights, dues, revenues; profit, advantage, benefit), from so- (good) + cor (act of putting, placing; setting up; act of throwing, casting; act of letting go, discarding; leap, twist; throw; twist, coil; contract).

Noun

sochar m (genitive singular sochair, nominative plural sochair)

  1. (literary) valid contract; (collectively) privileges, dues; emoluments
  2. benefit, profit; advantage, gain
  3. produce

Declension

Synonyms

Derived terms

  • bonn sochair (luck-penny)
  • fuílleach sochair (credit balance)
  • im sochair (yellowish oily exudation from soil)
  • nóta sochair (credit note)
  • sochar agus dochar (profit and loss; advantages and disadvantages)
  • sochar frithpháirteach (mutual benefit)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
sochar shochar
after an, tsochar
not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

  • "sochar" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
  • sochar” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

Scottish Gaelic

Noun

sochar f (genitive singular sochair, no plural)

  1. silliness, weakness, instability of purpose, yielding or too-compliant disposition, simplicity
  2. indulgence
  3. immunity
  4. interest
  5. present, donation
  6. Alternative form of sochair
  7. bashfulness, shyness
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