ardóg

Irish

Etymology 1

Noun

ardóg f (genitive singular ardóige, nominative plural ardóga)

  1. alternative form of ordóg (“thumb; claw, pincers; bit, piece, fragment”)

Etymology 2

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Noun

ardóg f (genitive singular ardóige, nominative plural ardóga)

  1. upper (stimulant)

Declension

Declension of ardóg (second declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative ardóg ardóga
vocative a ardóg a ardóga
genitive ardóige ardóg
dative ardóg ardóga
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an ardóg na hardóga
genitive na hardóige na n-ardóg
dative leis an ardóg
don ardóg 		leis na hardóga

Mutation

Mutated forms of ardóg
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
ardóg n-ardóg hardóg not applicable

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

Further reading

  • Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “ardóg”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
  • “upper”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025
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