collach

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish cullach (“boar; stallion”).

Pronunciation

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /kəˈl̪ˠɑx/
• (Connacht) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔl̪ˠəx/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈkʌl̪ˠa(x)/

Noun

collach m (genitive singular collaigh, nominative plural collaigh)

1. boar (male pig)
2. male crab

   Synonym: collach portáin

3. crude, fleshy, person

Declension

Declension of collach

First declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative collach collaigh Vocative a chollaigh a chollacha Genitive collaigh collach Dative collach collaigh

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an collach na collaigh Genitive an chollaigh na gcollach Dative leis an gcollach don chollach leis na collaigh

Derived terms

• fia-chollach (“wild boar”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
collach	chollach	gcollach
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “collach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cullach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “collach”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “collach”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024
• Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 79