déag
See also: deag
Irish
editEtymology
editFrom Middle Irish déc, from Old Irish deec, deac, from Proto-Celtic *dekam-kʷe (literally “and ten”), with loss of the first k by dissimilation.[1] Cognate with Scottish Gaelic deug and Manx jeig.
Pronunciation
editNumeral
editdéag
Usage notes
edit- Does not function as a suffix; functions as an entirely separate word. Follows the first part of the numeral as well as the noun (if any). Lenites in disjunctive numbers after dó (“two”) and in attributive numerals when the item counted is in the singular and ends in a vowel or is in the plural and ends in a slender consonant (except cinn):
- But:
- Additionally, never lenites in ordinal numbers:
- an t-aonú lá déag ― the eleventh day
- an ceathrú duine déag ― the fourteenth person
- an tseachtú mí déag ― the seventeenth month
Derived terms
editRelated terms
edit- deich (“ten”)
Mutation
editIrish mutation | ||
---|---|---|
Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
déag | dhéag | ndéag |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References
edit- ^ Schrijver, Peter (1993) “Varia IV. OIr. dëec, dëac”, in Ériu, volume 44, pages 181–84
Further reading
edit- “déag”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “deec”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 80
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “déag”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
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- Irish terms inherited from Old Irish
- Irish terms derived from Old Irish
- Irish terms inherited from Proto-Celtic
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- Irish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Irish lemmas
- Irish numerals
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