augaire
Old Irish
Alternative forms
- ugaire
Etymology
From *owi-garyos, from *owis (“sheep”) + *gar- (“to call”) + *-yos (agent noun suffix), literally “sheep-caller”. The evolution of the first vowel of this word is irregular; the expected outcome of this compound would be **uígire.
Inflection
| Masculine io-stem | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Dual | Plural | |
| Nominative | augaire | augaireL | augairiL |
| Vocative | augairi | augaireL | augairiu |
| Accusative | augaireN | augaireL | augairiuH |
| Genitive | augairiL | augaireL | augaireN |
| Dative | augairiuL | augairib | augairib |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Mutation
| Old Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
| augaire | unchanged | n-augaire |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
Further reading
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “oegaire”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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