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)

1. dirt

   Synonym: brocamas

2. ordure
3. sordidness; impurity, obscenity; scurrilousness
4. dross
5. weed infestation
6. spattering, sprinkling
7. drizzle

Declension

Declension of salachar

First declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun) Case Singular Nominative salachar Vocative a shalachair Genitive salachair Dative salachar

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Nominative an salachar Genitive an tsalachair Dative leis an salachar don salachar

Derived terms

• buacaire salachair (“mud-cock”)
• coirt salachair (“coat of dirt”)
• 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”)
• salacharaíl (“smattering; drizzling”)
• smál salachair (“dirt-stain”)
• spota salachair (“speck of dirt”)

 

Mutation

Irish mutation
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
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “salachar”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “salachar”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024
• Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 32