bodach

English

Noun

bodach (plural bodachs)

  1. A trickster or bogeyman figure in Gaelic folklore.

Irish

Pronunciation
  • (Connacht) IPA(key): /ˈbˠɔd̪ˠəx/
  • (Ulster) IPA(key): /ˈbˠʌd̪ˠa(h)/

Etymology 1

bod (“penis”) +‎ -ach (adjectival suffix)

Adjective

bodach (genitive singular masculine bodaigh, genitive singular feminine bodaí, plural bodacha, comparative bodaí)

  1. (archaic) lusty, virile
Declension
Declension of bodach
Singular Plural (m/f)
Positive Masculine Feminine (strong noun) (weak noun)
Nominative bodach bhodach bodacha;
bhodacha²
Vocative bhodaigh bodacha
Genitive bodaí bodacha bodach
Dative bodach;
bhodach¹		 bhodach;
bhodaigh (archaic)		 bodacha;
bhodacha²
Comparative níos bodaí
Superlative is bodaí

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

From Middle Irish botach (“serf, rustic, peasant”).

Noun

bodach m (genitive singular bodaigh, nominative plural bodaigh)

  1. boor, churl, lout
    Proverb: Tabhair rogha don bhodach agus tógfaidh sé an díogha. ― Give a beggar a horse and he will ride to the devil.
  2. male crab
Declension
Declension of bodach

First declension

Bare forms:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative bodach bodaigh
Vocative a bhodaigh a bhodacha
Genitive bodaigh bodach
Dative bodach bodaigh

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an bodach na bodaigh
Genitive an bhodaigh na mbodach
Dative leis an mbodach

don bhodach

 leis na bodaigh
Derived terms
  • An Bodach (“Orion”)
  • bodach bóthair (“vagrant, tramp”)
  • bodach buí (“pollock”)
  • bodach donn, bodach rua (“cod”)
  • bodach gliogair (“yellow rattle”)
  • bodach gorm (“field scabious”)
  • bodach mór (“ling; bigwig”)
  • bodachán (“snipe; measure”)
  • garbhán bodaigh (“coarse, wild, kale”)

Mutation
Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
bodach bhodach mbodach
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

Scots

Etymology

Borrowed from Scottish Gaelic bodach.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈbɔ.dəx/

Noun

bodach (plural bodachs)

  1. (dialectal) old man

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Middle Irish botach (“serf, rustic, peasant”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈpɔt̪əx/

Noun

bodach m (genitive singular bodaich, plural bodaich)

  1. old man

Derived terms

See also

Further reading
  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “bodach”, 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), “botach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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