frigh

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish frige.[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

frigh f (genitive singular frighde, nominative plural frighdidhe or frighdeacha)

  1. archaic and Ulster form of fríd (“fleshworm, mite”)

Declension

Declension of frigh (irregular)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative frigh frighdidhe
vocative a fhrigh a fhrighdidhe
genitive frighde frighdidhe
dative frighid frighdidhe
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an fhrigh na frighdidhe
genitive na frighde na bhfrighdidhe
dative leis an bhfrighid
don fhrighid 		leis na frighdidhe

Mutation

Mutated forms of frigh
radical lenition eclipsis
frigh fhrigh bhfrigh

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), “frige”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 117, page 45

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