Irish
Etymology
From caor (“berry; ball”) + tintreach (“lightning”). Calque of English ball lightning.
Noun
caorthintreach f (genitive singular caorthintrí, nominative plural caorthintreacha)
- ball lightning
Declension
Declension of caorthintreach (second declension)
| bare forms
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singular
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plural
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| nominative
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caorthintreach
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caorthintreacha
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| vocative
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a chaorthintreach
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a chaorthintreacha
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| genitive
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caorthintrí
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caorthintreach
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| dative
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caorthintreach
caorthintrigh (archaic, dialectal)
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caorthintreacha
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| forms with the definite article
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singular
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plural
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| nominative
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an chaorthintreach
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na caorthintreacha
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| genitive
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na caorthintrí
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na gcaorthintreach
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| dative
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leis an gcaorthintreach
leis an gcaorthintrigh (archaic, dialectal)
don chaorthintreach
don chaorthintrigh (archaic, dialectal)
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leis na caorthintreacha
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Mutation
Mutated forms of caorthintreach
| radical
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lenition
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eclipsis
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| caorthintreach
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chaorthintreach
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gcaorthintreach
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Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Further reading
- “caorthintreach”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025