maorga
Irish edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Middle Irish máerda.[1] By surface analysis, maor (“supervisor, overseer”) + -ga.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
maorga
- dignified, noble, stately
- 1939, Peig Sayers, “Inghean an Cheannaidhe”, in Marie-Louise Sjoestedt, Description d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (Bibliothèque de l'École des Hautes Études; 270) (overall work in French), Paris: Librairie Honoré Champion, page 193:
- Do thuill sí an ainm sin mar ni raibh sa bhaile mhór aon chailín comh deas comh maordha léi.
- She earned that name because there was in the city no girl as pretty and as dignified as she.
Declension edit
Declension of maorga
| Singular | Plural (m/f) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Positive | Masculine | Feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
| Nominative | maorga | mhaorga | maorga; mhaorga² | |
| Vocative | mhaorga | maorga | ||
| Genitive | maorga | maorga | maorga | |
| Dative | maorga; mhaorga¹ |
mhaorga | maorga; mhaorga² | |
| Comparative | níos maorga | |||
| Superlative | is maorga | |||
¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.
Mutation edit
| Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| maorga | mhaorga | not applicable |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
References edit
- ^ G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “maerda”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Further reading edit
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “maorḋa”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 466
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “maorga”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN