dealaigh

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Irish deiligid.[2]

Verb

dealaigh (present analytic dealaíonn, future analytic dealóidh, verbal noun dealú, past participle dealaithe)

  1. (transitive) to part, separate
    Synonyms: deighil, scar
  2. (transitive) to distinguish, differentiate
  3. (transitive) to take away
    Synonyms: bain, tóg
  4. (ambitransitive, mathematics) to subtract [with ó ‘from’]
  5. (intransitive with le) to depart
    Dealóidh mé liom.
    I'll leave.

Conjugation

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of dealaigh
radical lenition eclipsis
dealaigh dhealaigh ndealaigh

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

References

  1. ^ dealaigh”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “deiligidir”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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