uachais

Irish

Alternative forms

  • fuachais, puachais, puathais
  • fuachuis, fuathchais, puathuis, uathchais (obsolete)[1]

Etymology

From Middle Irish fúachais.[2]

Noun

uachais f (genitive singular uachaise, nominative plural uachaisí)

  1. lair, den (of an animal)
  2. burrow (tunnel or hole)

Declension

Declension of uachais (second declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative uachais uachaisí
vocative a uachais a uachaisí
genitive uachaise uachaisí
dative uachais uachaisí
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an uachais na huachaisí
genitive na huachaise na n-uachaisí
dative leis an uachais
don uachais 		leis na huachaisí

Synonyms

Mutation

Mutated forms of uachais
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
uachais n-uachais huachais not applicable

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

References

  1. ^ “uachais”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “fúachais”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Further reading

  • Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927), “1281”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society; reprinted with additions 1996, →ISBN
  • Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “uachais”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
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