ocrasach

Irish

Etymology

From ocras (“hunger”) +‎ -ach (adjectival suffix).

Adjective

ocrasach (genitive singular masculine ocrasaigh, plural ocrasacha)

  1. Alternative form of ocrach (“hungry; marked by, inducing, hunger; poor, barren; poverty-stricken; mean, miserly”)

Declension
Declension of ocrasach
Singular Plural (m/f)
Positive Masculine Feminine (strong noun) (weak noun)
Nominative ocrasach ocrasach ocrasacha
Vocative ocrasaigh ocrasacha
Genitive ocrasaí ocrasacha ocrasach
Dative ocrasach ocrasach;
ocrasaigh (archaic)		 ocrasacha
Comparative níos ocrasaí
Superlative is ocrasaí

Noun

ocrasach m (genitive singular ocrasaigh, nominative plural ocrasaigh)

  1. Alternative form of ocrach (“hungry person”)

Declension
Declension of ocrasach

First declension

Bare forms:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative ocrasach ocrasaigh
Vocative a ocrasaigh a ocrasacha
Genitive ocrasaigh ocrasach
Dative ocrasach ocrasaigh

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an t-ocrasach na hocrasaigh
Genitive an ocrasaigh na n-ocrasach
Dative leis an ocrasach

don ocrasach

 leis na hocrasaigh

Mutation
Irish mutation
RadicalEclipsiswith h-prothesiswith t-prothesis
ocrasach n-ocrasach hocrasach t-ocrasach
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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