coscrach

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Irish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Middle Irish coscarach, coscrach (“victorious, triumphant”).[2] By surface analysis, coscair +‎ -ach.

Adjective

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coscrach (genitive singular masculine coscraigh, genitive singular feminine coscraí, plural coscracha, comparative coscraí)

  1. bloodcurdling
  2. shattering, stunning, shocking
  3. distressing, harrowing, agonizing, nerve-racking
  4. (literary) victorious, triumphant
  5. heartrending, heartbreaking
  6. moving (that causes someone to feel emotion), wrenching

Declension

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Declension of coscrach
Singular Plural (m/f)
Positive Masculine Feminine (strong noun) (weak noun)
Nominative coscrach choscrach coscracha;
choscracha²
Vocative choscraigh coscracha
Genitive coscraí coscracha coscrach
Dative coscrach;
choscrach¹ 		choscrach;
choscraigh (archaic) 		coscracha;
choscracha²
Comparative níos coscraí
Superlative is coscraí

¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

Synonyms

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Derived terms

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Mutation

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Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
coscrach choscrach gcoscrach
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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

Further reading

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