prácás

prácás

See also: praças

Irish

Pronunciation

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /ˈpˠɾˠɑːkəsˠ/[1] (as if spelled prácas)
• (Connacht) IPA^(key): /ˈpˠɾˠɑːkɑːsˠ/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈpˠɾˠæːkasˠ/[2]

Noun

prácás m (genitive singular prácáis)

1. hodgepodge, mess, slop
2. mess-up, screwup, shambles
3. botch (action, job, or task that has been performed very badly)

Declension

Declension of prácás

First declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun) Case Singular Nominative prácás Vocative a phrácáis Genitive prácáis Dative prácás

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Nominative an prácás Genitive an phrácáis Dative leis an bprácás don phrácás

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
prácás	phrácás	bprácás
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• “prácás” at the Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926 of the Royal Irish Academy.
• “prácás” in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, Irish Texts Society, 1st ed., 1904, by Patrick S. Dinneen, page 549.
• "prácás" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Entries containing “prácás” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

References

1. Irish Pronunciation Database: prácás
2. Quiggin, E. C. (1906), A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 8.