gág

See also: gag, Gag, and GAG

Irish

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• (Munster, Connacht) IPA^(key): /ɡɑːɡ/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ɡaːɡ/

Noun

gág f (genitive singular gáige, nominative plural gága)

1. fissure, crack, chink, crevice
2. crack in the skin, chap
3. creek

Declension

Declension of gág

Second declension

Bare forms Case Singular Plural Nominative gág gága Vocative a ghág a ghága Genitive gáige gág Dative gág gáig (archaic, dialectal) gága

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Plural Nominative an ghág na gága Genitive na gáige na ngág Dative leis an ngág leis an ngáig (archaic, dialectal) don ghág don gháig (archaic, dialectal) leis na gága

Descendants

• → Yola: gawg

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
gág	ghág	ngág
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927) “gág”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “gág”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN