daigh

See also: dáigh

Irish

Alternative forms

  • doigh

Etymology

From Old Irish daig (“flame, fire”).[1]

Noun

daigh f (genitive singular daighe, nominative plural daitheacha)

  1. (literary) flame, fire
  2. stabbing pain, pang, twinge

Declension

Declension of daigh (second declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative daigh daigha
vocative a dhaigh a dhaigha
genitive daighe daigh
dative daigh daigha
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an daigh na daigha
genitive na daighe na ndaigh
dative leis an daigh
don daigh 		leis na daigha

Mutation

Mutated forms of daigh
radical lenition eclipsis
daigh dhaigh ndaigh

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

Further reading

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