Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish patu (“hare”)[1] (from Brythonic, compare Welsh pathew (“dormouse”)) + -óg.
Pronunciation
Noun
patalóg f (genitive singular patalóige, nominative plural patalóga)
- alternative form of pataire
Declension
Declension of patalóg (second declension)
| bare forms
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singular
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plural
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| nominative
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patalóg
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patalóga
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| vocative
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a phatalóg
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a phatalóga
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| genitive
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patalóige
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patalóg
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| dative
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patalóg
patalóig (archaic, dialectal)
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patalóga
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| forms with the definite article
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singular
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plural
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| nominative
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an phatalóg
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na patalóga
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| genitive
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na patalóige
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na bpatalóg
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| dative
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leis an bpatalóg
leis an bpatalóig (archaic, dialectal)
don phatalóg
don phatalóig (archaic, dialectal)
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leis na patalóga
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Mutation
Mutated forms of patalóg
| radical
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lenition
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eclipsis
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| patalóg
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phatalóg
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bpatalóg
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Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
References
- ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “patu”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 292, page 148