-ódh
Irish
Alternative forms
- -eodh (after a slender consonant)
- -óchadh (Ulster, archaic, after a broad consonant)
- -eochadh (Ulster, archaic, after a slender consonant)
Pronunciation
- (Munster) IPA(key): /oːx/
- (Galway) IPA(key): (before sé, sí, sibh, siad) /oːtʲ/, (elsewhere) /oːx/
- (Mayo) IPA(key): (before sé, sí, sibh, siad) /oːtʲ/, (elsewhere) /oːw/
- (Ulster) IPA(key): (before sé, sí, sibh, siad) /axətʲ/[1], /ahədʲ/ ~ /əhədʲ/[2], (elsewhere) /ahu/
Suffix
-ódh
- Forms the analytic form of the conditional mood of the second conjugation.
References
- ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 455, page 147
- ^ Hamilton, John Noel (1974) A Phonetic Study of the Irish of Tory Island, Co. Donegal (Studies in Irish Language and Literature, Department of Celtic, Q.U.B.; vol. 3), Institute of Irish Studies, The Queen’s University Belfast, page 213
Further reading
- A.J. Hughes (2008) “Roinnt de na príomhshaintréithe canúna- Some key dialect variations”, in Leabhar Mór Bhriathra na Gaeilge - The Great Irish Book (overall work in Irish and English), Béal Feirste = Belfast: Clólann Bhean Mhadagáin = Ben Madigan Press, →ISBN, pages 29-30