Irish

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Etymology

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From Old Irish ord(d)aigid(ir) (orders, ordains, institutes; appoints (to an office); assigns, allots (something to someone); orders, commands), from ord(d) (order, sequence; arrangement, state, way, course, procedure; degree, rank; dignity, honour; functions, duty, task; rule, regulation, ordinance, institution; ritual, office; clerical ordination, holy orders), a learned loan-word from Latin ōrdō.

Verb

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ordaigh (present analytic ordaíonn, future analytic ordóidh, verbal noun ordú, past participle ordaithe)

  1. (transitive) order
    1. command, prescribe
    2. ask to be supplied
    3. ordain
    4. recommend
    5. (literary) put in order
      Proverb: D'ordaigh Dia cúnamh.God helps those who help themselves.
  2. (transitive, literary) institute, found

Conjugation

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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
ordaigh n-ordaigh hordaigh not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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