-óidh
Irish
editAlternative forms
edit- -eoidh (after a slender consonant)
- -eochaidh (Ulster, archaic, after a slender consonant)
- -óchaidh (Ulster, archaic, after a broad consonant)
Etymology
editFrom earlier -óchaidh, -eochaidh (still used in Ulster), from Middle Irish -éuchaid, é-future of -igid (from Old Irish -igidir).
Pronunciation
editSuffix
edit-óidh
- Forms the analytic form of the future tense of the second conjugation.
Further reading
edit- A.J. Hughes (2008) “Roinnt de na príomhshaintréithe canúna- Some key dialect variations”, in Leabhar Mór Bhriathra na Gaeilge - The Great Irish Book (overall work in Irish and English), Béal Feirste = Belfast: Clólann Bhean Mhadagáin = Ben Madigan Press, →ISBN, pages 29-30