salachar
Irish
Etymology
From Middle Irish salchar. Compare salach (“dirty”).
Pronunciation
- (Munster) IPA(key): /sˠəˈl̪ˠɑxəɾˠ/
- (Connacht, Ulster) IPA(key): /ˈsˠalˠəxəɾˠ/, /ˈsˠal̪ˠəxəɾˠ/
Noun
salachar m (genitive singular salachair)
- dirt
- Synonym: brocamas
- ordure
- sordidness; impurity, obscenity; scurrilousness
- dross
- weed infestation
- spattering, sprinkling
- drizzle
Declension
Declension of salachar
First declension
Bare forms (no plural of this noun)
| Forms with the definite article:
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Derived terms
- buacaire salachair (“mud-cock”)
- coirt salachair (“coat of dirt”)
- salacharaíl (“smattering; drizzling”)
- 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”)
- smál salachair (“dirt-stain”)
- spota salachair (“speck of dirt”)
Mutation
Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
salachar | shalachar after an, tsalachar | not applicable |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “salachar”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Entries containing “salachar” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
- Entries containing “salachar” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
- Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 32