sochar

See also: sochař

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish sochar (“a good or valid contract; privileges, rights, dues, revenues; profit, advantage, benefit”), from so- (“good”) + cor (“act of putting, placing; setting up; act of throwing, casting; act of letting go, discarding; leap, twist; throw; twist, coil; contract”).

Noun

sochar m (genitive singular sochair, nominative plural sochair)

  1. (literary) valid contract; (collectively) privileges, dues; emoluments
  2. benefit, profit; advantage, gain
  3. produce

Declension
Declension of sochar

First declension

Bare forms:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative sochar sochair
Vocative a shochair a shochara
Genitive sochair sochar
Dative sochar sochair

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an sochar na sochair
Genitive an tsochair na sochar
Dative leis an sochar

don sochar

 leis na sochair

Synonyms

Derived terms
  • bonn sochair (“luck-penny”)
  • fuílleach sochair (“credit balance”)
  • im sochair (“yellowish oily exudation from soil”)
  • nóta sochair (“credit note”)
  • sochar agus dochar (“profit and loss; advantages and disadvantages”)
  • sochar frithpháirteach (“mutual benefit”)

Mutation
Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
sochar shochar
after an, tsochar		 not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References
  • "sochar" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
  • “sochar” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

Scottish Gaelic

Noun

sochar f (genitive singular sochair, no plural)

  1. silliness, weakness, instability of purpose, yielding or too-compliant disposition, simplicity
  2. indulgence
  3. immunity
  4. interest
  5. present, donation
  6. Alternative form of sochair
  7. bashfulness, shyness
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