gág

See also: gag, Gag, and GAG

Irish

Etymology

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Pronunciation

Noun

gág f (genitive singular gáige, nominative plural gága)

  1. fissure, crack, chink, crevice
  2. crack in the skin, chap
  3. creek

Declension

Declension of gág (second declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative gág gága
vocative a ghág a ghága
genitive gáige gág
dative gág
gáig (archaic, dialectal) 		gága
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an ghág na gága
genitive na gáige na ngág
dative leis an ngág
leis an ngáig (archaic, dialectal)
don ghág
don gháig (archaic, dialectal) 		leis na gága

Descendants

  • → Yola: gawg

Mutation

Mutated forms of gág
radical lenition eclipsis
gág ghág ngág

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

Further reading

  • Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927) “gág”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 507; reprinted with additions 1996, →ISBN
  • Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “gág”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
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