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bachlach

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Irish

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Adjective

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bachlach (genitive singular masculine bachlaigh, genitive singular feminine bachlaí, plural bachlacha)

  1. Alternative form of bachallach (“curly, ringleted”)
    • 1939, Peig Sayers, “Inghean an Cheannaidhe”, in Marie-Louise Sjoestedt, Description d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (Bibliothèque de l'École des Hautes Études; 270) (overall work in French), Paris: Librairie Honoré Champion, page 197:
      Do bhí a ceann bachlach bán beárrtha aici, agus culath duine uasail uirthi; budh dhóigh leat gur fear í insan am san.
      She had shaved her curly blonde head and put on a gentleman’s suit; you would have thought she was a man at that time.
Inflection
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Declension of bachlach
singular plural (m/f)
Positive masculine feminine (strong noun) (weak noun)
nominative bachlach bhachlach bachlacha;
bhachlacha2
vocative bhachlaigh bachlacha
genitive bachlaí bachlacha bachlach
dative bachlach;
bhachlach1 		bhachlach;
bhachlaigh (archaic) 		bachlacha;
bhachlacha2
Comparative níos bachlaí
Superlative is bachlaí

1 When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
2 When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

Etymology 2

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Noun

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bachlach m (genitive singular bachlaigh, nominative plural bachlaigh)

  1. Alternative form of bathlach (“clumsy person; dilapidated building”)
Declension
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Declension of bachlach (first declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative bachlach bachlaigh
vocative a bhachlaigh a bhachlacha
genitive bachlaigh bachlach
dative bachlach bachlaigh
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an bachlach na bachlaigh
genitive an bhachlaigh na mbachlach
dative leis an mbachlach
don bhachlach 		leis na bachlaigh

Mutation

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Mutated forms of bachlach
radical lenition eclipsis
bachlach bhachlach mbachlach

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

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  1. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1938) Description d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ancienne Honoré Champion, page 191

Middle Irish

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Etymology

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From bachall +‎ -ach.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈbaxlax/, /ˈbaxləx/

Noun

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bachlach m

  1. labourer, serf, bondman
  2. clown, churl

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Irish: bathlach
  • Scottish Gaelic: balach

Mutation

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Mutation of bachlach
radical lenition nasalization
bachlach bachlach
pronounced with /β(ʲ)-/		 mbachlach

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Middle Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

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