Irish

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Noun

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aoghaire m (genitive singular aoghaire, nominative plural aoghairí)

  1. Superseded spelling of aoire (shepherd; pastor; (parliamentary) whip).

Declension

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Mutation

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Irish mutation
Radical Eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
aoghaire n-aoghaire haoghaire t-aoghaire
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

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  • Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “aoḋaire, aoġaire”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 32

Scottish Gaelic

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Etymology

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From Middle Irish áegaire, from Old Irish augaire.[1]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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aoghaire m (genitive singular aoghaire, plural aoghairean)

  1. herdsman, pastor, shepherd
  2. pastor (ecclesiastical)

Derived terms

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  • aoghaireil (pastoral, pertaining to a herdsman/pastor/shepherd)
  • aoghaireach (pastoral, pertaining to a herdsman/pastor/shepherd)

Mutation

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Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical Eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
aoghaire n-aoghaire h-aoghaire t-aoghaire
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “oegaire”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language