adharcach

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish adarcach. By surface analysis, adharc (horn) + -ach (adjectival suffix). The sense ‘sexually aroused’ is a semantic loan from English horny.

Adjective

adharcach (genitive singular masculine adharcaigh, genitive singular feminine adharcaí, plural adharcacha, comparative adharcaí)

  1. horned, horny
  2. horny (sexually aroused)

Declension

Derived terms

  • ciaróg adharcach (rhinoceros beetle)
  • daol adharcach (stag beetle)
  • nathair shligreach adharcach (sidewinder) (snake)

Mutation

Irish mutation
RadicalEclipsiswith h-prothesiswith t-prothesis
adharcach n-adharcach hadharcach not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish adarcach, from adarc (horn). By surface analysis, adharc (horn) + -ach (adjectival suffix).

Adjective

adharcach (genitive singular masculine adharcaich, genitive singular feminine adharcaiche, comparative adharcaiche)

  1. horned, horny
  2. (heraldry) attired

Declension

Case Masculine singular Feminine singular Plural
Nominative adharcach adharcach adharcach
Vocative adharcaich adharcach adharcach
Genitive adharcaich adharcaiche adharcach
Dative adharcach adharcaich adharcach

Derived terms

Mutation

Scottish Gaelic mutation
RadicalEclipsiswith h-prothesiswith t-prothesis
adharcachn-adharcachh-adharcacht-adharcach
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “adharcach”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “adarcach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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