eangach

Irish

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Possibly a substantivization of Middle Irish engach (“checkered, variegated, striped”).[2]

Noun

eangach f (genitive singular eangaí, nominative plural eangacha)

  1. (fishing, computing, etc.) net
  2. (computing, etc.) network
Declension
Declension of eangach (second declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative eangach eangacha
vocative a eangach a eangacha
genitive eangaí eangach
dative eangach eangacha
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an eangach na heangacha
genitive na heangaí na n-eangach
dative leis an eangach
don eangach 		leis na heangacha
Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Old Irish engach (“variegated; grooved”).[3][4] By surface analysis, eang (“gusset; notch”) +‎ -ach (adjectival suffix).

Adjective

eangach (genitive singular masculine eangaigh, genitive singular feminine eangaí, plural eangacha, comparative eangaí)

  1. gusseted
  2. patched, checkered
  3. notched, grooved, indented
Declension
Declension of eangach
Positive singular plural
masculine feminine strong noun weak noun
nominative eangach eangach eangacha
vocative eangaigh eangacha
genitive eangaí eangacha eangach
dative eangach eangach;
eangaigh (archaic) 		eangacha
Comparative níos eangaí
Superlative is eangaí

Mutation

Mutated forms of eangach
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
eangach n-eangach heangach not applicable

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

References

  1. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 302, page 106
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “5 engach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 engach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  4. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “3 engach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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