Irish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Middle Irish etarguide.[2] By surface analysis, idir- +‎ guí.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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idirghuí f (genitive singular idirghuí, nominative plural idirghuíonna)

  1. (religion) intercession (prayer to God on behalf of another person), supplication

Declension

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Derived terms

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Mutation

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

References

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  1. ^ idirghuí”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “etarguide”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 82, page 34

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