anrachán

Irish

Etymology

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Noun

anrachán m (genitive singular anracháin, nominative plural anracháin)

1. craving, hunger
2. greedy, hungry, person

Declension

Declension of anrachán

First declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative anrachán anracháin Vocative a anracháin a anrachána Genitive anracháin anrachán Dative anrachán anracháin

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an t-anrachán na hanracháin Genitive an anracháin na n-anrachán Dative leis an anrachán don anrachán leis na hanracháin

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
anrachán	n-anrachán	hanrachán	t-anrachán
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “anrachán”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN