angadh

Irish

Etymology

Alteration of Middle Irish ingor[1] (whence Scottish Gaelic iongar and probably southern Irish anagar, anagal (corrupt matter)) under the influence of aingid,[2] angbaid (wicked)[3] (whence aingí (malignant)).[4]

Pronunciation

Noun

angadh m (genitive singular angaidh)

  1. (Mayo, Ulster) pus

Declension

Declension of angadh (first declension, no plural)
bare forms
singular
nominative angadh
vocative a angaidh
genitive angaidh
dative angadh
forms with the definite article
singular
nominative an t-angadh
genitive an angaidh
dative leis an angadh
don angadh

Synonyms

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of angadh
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
angadh n-angadh hangadh t-angadh

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “3 ingor”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “an(d)gaid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “angbaid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  4. ^ O’Rahilly, T. F. (1912) “Review of Paul Walsh’s edition of Bishop Gallagher’s Seacht Seanmóir Déag”, in Gadelica, volume 1, page 70
  5. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 302, page 106

Further reading

  • Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927) “angaḋ”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 45; reprinted with additions 1996, →ISBN
  • Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “angadh”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
  • angadh”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025