cathaigh

Irish

Etymology 1

From Old Irish cathaigid.[1] By surface analysis, cath (battle) +‎ -aigh.

Verb

cathaigh (present analytic cathaíonn, future analytic cathóidh, verbal noun cathú, past participle cathaithe) (literary)

  1. to fight, battle [with le ‘with’]
  2. to tempt
Usage notes

While the verbal noun cathú is still the ordinary word for temptation, the finite verb cathaigh is now rarely used in the colloquial language.

Conjugation
Synonyms

Further reading

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

cathaigh

  1. vocative/genitive singular of cathach m
  2. (archaic or dialectal) dative singular of cathach f

Adjective

cathaigh

  1. inflection of cathach:
    1. masculine vocative/genitive singular
    2. (archaic or dialectal) feminine dative singular

Mutation

Mutated forms of cathaigh
radical lenition eclipsis
cathaigh chathaigh gcathaigh

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), “cathaigid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language