aerach
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Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle Irish aerach (“airy, pleasant; light-hearted, gay, frivolous”); aer (“air”) + -ach. The sense ‘homosexual’ is a semantic loan from English gay.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]aerach (genitive singular masculine aeraigh, genitive singular feminine aeraí, plural aeracha, comparative aeraí)
- airy
- lighthearted, gay; lively, frolicsome
- flighty, giddy
- (sexuality, LGBTQ) gay, homosexual
- Synonyms: bán, homaighnéasach
- Synonym of aerachtúil (“eerie”)
Declension
[edit]Declension of aerach
Mutation
[edit]| Irish mutation | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Radical | Eclipsis | with h-prothesis | with t-prothesis |
| aerach | n-aerach | haerach | not applicable |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | |||
Further reading
[edit]- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “aerach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “aerach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “aerach”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- “aerach”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024