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currach
currach
English
Alternative forms
Noun
currach (plural currachs)
- (nautical) An Irish boat, constructed like a coracle, and originally the same shape; now a boat of similar construction but conventional shape and large enough to be operated by up to eight oars.
- 2002, Joseph O'Connor, Star of the Sea, Vintage 2003, page 53:
- Some days he went out in the currach with her father and her brothers, out past Blue Island and Inishlackan, where the mackerel and sea salmon were fat as piglets.
- 2002, Joseph O'Connor, Star of the Sea, Vintage 2003, page 53:
Irish
Noun
currach f (genitive singular curraí, nominative plural curracha)
- Alternative spelling of curach
Mutation
Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
currach | churrach | gcurrach |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |