iarghnó

Irish

Alternative forms
  • iargnó, iargnú[1]

Etymology

From Middle Irish íargnó.[2] By surface analysis, iar- +‎ gnó.

Pronunciation

Noun

iarghnó m (genitive singular iarghnó)

  1. grief, anguish
  2. regret
  3. annoyance
  4. lament, elegy

Declension
Declension of iarghnó

Fourth declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun)

Case Singular
Nominative iarghnó
Vocative a iarghnó
Genitive iarghnó
Dative iarghnó

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular
Nominative an t-iarghnó
Genitive an iarghnó
Dative leis an iarghnó

don iarghnó

Derived terms
  • iargnóch

Mutation
Irish mutation
RadicalEclipsiswith h-prothesiswith t-prothesis
iarghnó n-iarghnó hiarghnó t-iarghnó
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References
  1. “iarghnó”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 íargnó”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 20

Further reading
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