Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish éicen (“necessity”).
Pronunciation
Noun
éigean m or f (genitive singular éigin)
- force, violence
- necessity, compulsion
Faoi éigean a ghéill sé dóibh.- He obeyed them only under compulsion.
- strait, difficulty; want, distress
Declension
Declension of éigean (first declension, no plural)
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- Alternative declension
Declension of éigean (second declension, no plural)
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Derived terms
Mutation
Mutated forms of éigean
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eclipsis |
with h-prothesis |
with t-prothesis
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| éigean
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n-éigean
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héigean
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t-éigean
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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.
References
- ^ Ó Sé, Diarmuid (2000) Gaeilge Chorca Dhuibhne [The Irish of Corkaguiny] (in Irish), Institiúid Teangeolaíochta Éireann [Linguistics Institute of Ireland], →ISBN, section 650, page 349
- ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), Zweiter Band: Wörterbuch [Second volume: Dictionary], Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 93
- ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 432, page 139
Further reading
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “éicen”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “éigean”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 283
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “éigean”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
