eitigh

Irish

Etymology 1

From Middle Irish etchid, etigid,[1] from eitech (refusal, refusing), verbal noun of Old Irish as·toing (refuses, literally swears away from, removes by oath).

Verb

eitigh (present analytic eitíonn, future analytic eiteoidh, verbal noun eiteach, past participle eitithe)

  1. (transitive) refuse, reject
    Proverb: Níor eitigh páipéar bán dúch riamh.Youth is impressionable. (literally “Blank paper never rejected ink.”)
Conjugation

Noun

eitigh m sg

  1. genitive singular of eiteach (refusal)

Etymology 2

Noun

eitigh m sg

  1. genitive singular of eiteach (wings; plumes, feathers; fins)

Adjective

eitigh

  1. inflection of eiteach (winged):
    1. masculine vocative/genitive singular
    2. (archaic) dative singular feminine

Mutation

Mutated forms of eitigh
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
eitigh n-eitigh heitigh 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. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “etchid, etigid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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