diaga
Irish edit
Alternative forms edit
- diadha (superseded spelling)
Etymology edit
Old Irish díadae (“divine, godly”). By surface analysis, Dia (“God”) + -ga.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
diaga
Declension edit
Declension of diaga
Singular | Plural (m/f) | |||
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Positive | Masculine | Feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
Nominative | diaga | dhiaga | diaga; dhiaga² | |
Vocative | dhiaga | diaga | ||
Genitive | diaga | diaga | diaga | |
Dative | diaga; dhiaga¹ |
dhiaga | diaga; dhiaga² | |
Comparative | níos diaga | |||
Superlative | is diaga |
¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.
Derived terms edit
Mutation edit
Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
diaga | dhiaga | ndiaga |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References edit
- ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 80
Further reading edit
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “diaga”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “diaga”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language