mhaige

Irish

Alternative forms

• dar muige, mhuige

Etymology

Taboo deformation of Mhuire, vocative of Muire (“(the Blessed Virgin) Mary”).

Pronunciation

• (Connacht, Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈwæɟɪ/

Interjection

mhaige

1. indeed!, really!

Further reading

• “mhaige”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “mhaige”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 74