salachar
Irish
editEtymology
editFrom Middle Irish salchar. Compare salach (“dirty”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editsalachar m (genitive singular salachair)
- dirt
- Synonym: brocamas
- ordure
- sordidness; impurity, obscenity; scurrilousness
- dross
- weed infestation
- spattering, sprinkling
- drizzle
Declension
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Derived terms
edit- buacaire salachair (“mud-cock”)
- coirt salachair (“coat of dirt”)
- salachar airgid (“silver dross”)
- salachar báistí (“drizzling rain”)
- salachar béil (“thrush; orf”)
- salachar cainte (“smutty talk”)
- salachar ceo (“drizzling mist”)
- salachar craicinn (“skin eruption”)
- salachar duine (“human ordure”)
- salachar éan (“bird-droppings”)
- salachar gaoil (“distant relationship”)
- salachar rásúir (“barber's itch”)
- salachar umha (“verdigris”)
- salacharaíl (“smattering; drizzling”)
- smál salachair (“dirt-stain”)
- spota salachair (“speck of dirt”)
Mutation
edit| radical | lenition | eclipsis |
|---|---|---|
| salachar | shalachar after an, tsalachar |
not applicable |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Further reading
edit- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “salachar”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “salachar”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- “salachar”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024
- Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 32