Irish

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Etymology

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From sráid (street) +‎ -óg. The oldest sense was cake of bread spread out thinly, that is, spread out flat like a street.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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sráideog f (genitive singular sráideoige, nominative plural sráideoga)

  1. pallet (straw bed, improvised bed), shakedown (improvised bed)
  2. (obsolete) cake of bread spread out thinly

Declension

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Declension of sráideog (second declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative sráideog sráideoga
vocative a shráideog a shráideoga
genitive sráideoige sráideog
dative sráideog
sráideoig (archaic, dialectal)
sráideoga
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an tsráideog na sráideoga
genitive na sráideoige na sráideog
dative leis an tsráideog
leis an tsráideoig (archaic, dialectal)
don tsráideog
don tsráideoig (archaic, dialectal)
leis na sráideoga

Mutation

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Mutated forms of sráideog
radical lenition eclipsis
sráideog shráideog
after an, tsráideog
not applicable

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

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  1. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 96

Further reading

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