bacach

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish baccach (“lame; lame person”), from bacc (“angle, bend; hindrance, act of hindering”) + -ach.

Pronunciation

Adjective

bacach (genitive singular masculine bacaigh, genitive singular feminine bacaí, plural bacacha, comparative bacaí)

  1. lame
  2. halting, imperfect

Declension
Declension of bacach
Singular Plural (m/f)
Positive Masculine Feminine (strong noun) (weak noun)
Nominative bacach bhacach bacacha;
bhacacha²
Vocative bhacaigh bacacha
Genitive bacaí bacacha bacach
Dative bacach;
bhacach¹		 bhacach;
bhacaigh (archaic)		 bacacha;
bhacacha²
Comparative níos bacaí
Superlative is bacaí

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

Derived terms
  • bacachán m (“lame person or animal”)

Noun

bacach m (genitive singular bacaigh, nominative plural bacaigh)

  1. lame person
  2. beggar
    Synonym: sirtheoir
    Ná bac le mac an bhacaigh is ní bhacfaidh mac an bhacaigh leat.
    Don’t bother the beggar’s son and the beggar’s son won’t bother you.
    1. mean person, sponger
    2. despicable person

Declension
Declension of bacach

First declension

Bare forms:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative bacach bacaigh
Vocative a bhacaigh a bhacacha
Genitive bacaigh bacach
Dative bacach bacaigh

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an bacach na bacaigh
Genitive an bhacaigh na mbacach
Dative leis an mbacach

don bhacach

 leis na bacaigh

Derived terms
  • bacachas m (“(act of) begging, sponging”)

Mutation
Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
bacach bhacach mbacach
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading
  • "bacach" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
  • “baccach” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
  • Entries containing “bacach” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
  • Entries containing “bacach” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish baccach (“lame; lame person”), from bacc (“angle, bend; hindrance, act of hindering”) + -ach.

Adjective

bacach

  1. crippled, lame, limping
  2. rugged

Declension

First declension; forms of the positive degree:

Case Masculine singular Feminine singular Plural
Nominative bacach bhacach bacach
Vocative bhacaich bhacaich bacach
Genitive bhacaich bhacaich/bacaich bacach
Dative bhacach bhacaich bacach

Comparative/superlative: bacaiche

Noun

bacach m (genitive singular bacaich, plural bacaich)

  1. a crippled person

Mutation
Scottish Gaelic mutation
RadicalLenition
bacachbhacach
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading
  • Faclair Gàidhlig Dwelly Air Loidhne, Dwelly, Edward (1911), Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic-English Dictionary (10th ed.), Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • “baccach” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
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