deagha

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish dedga (“centaury”). Compare Scottish Gaelic i-teodha (“hemlock”).

Noun

deagha m (genitive singular deagha)

1. centaury

Declension

Declension of deagha

Fourth declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun) Case Singular Nominative deagha Vocative a dheagha Genitive deagha Dative deagha

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Nominative an deagha Genitive an deagha Dative leis an deagha don deagha

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
deagha	dheagha	ndeagha
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “deagha”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “dedga”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language