acrach

Irish

Alternative forms

• acarach

Etymology

From acra (“tool, implement; service, convenience”) +‎ -ach (adjectival suffix).

Adjective

acrach (genitive singular masculine acraigh, genitive singular feminine acraí, plural acracha, comparative acraí)

1. handy, useful; convenient

Declension

Declension of acrach

	Singular		Plural (m/f)
Positive	Masculine	Feminine	(strong noun)	(weak noun)
Nominative	acrach	acrach	acracha
Vocative	acraigh		acracha
Genitive		acraí	acracha	acrach
Dative	acrach	acrach; acraigh (archaic)	acracha
Comparative	níos acraí
Superlative	is acraí

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
acrach	n-acrach	hacrach	not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “acrach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “acrach”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “acrach”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology 1

From Old Irish occorach.

Adjective

acrach (genitive singular feminine acraiche, comparative acraiche)

1. hungry

Usage notes

• Usually used attributively. The usual predicative form is created using acras:

  daoine acrach ― hungry people

  tha an t-acras orra ― they are hungry (literally, “[there] is the hunger on them”)

Alternative forms

• acorach, ocrach, ocrasach

Derived terms

• mion-acrach (“hungry, voracious, ravenous; having a false appetite; eating but little at a time, as an invalid”)

Noun

acrach m

1. hungry person

Alternative forms

• acorach, ocrach, ocrasach

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

acrach f

1. genitive singular of acair (“anchor”)

Mutation

Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical	Eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
acrach	n-acrach	h-acrach	t-acrach
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “acrach”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎^[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “occorach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language