oibleagáid

Irish

FWOTD – 23 March 2021

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin obligātiō.[2]

Pronunciation

  • (Aran) IPA(key): /ˈəibˠləɡədʲ/[3] (as if spelled oibleagaid)

Noun

oibleagáid f (genitive singular oibleagáide, nominative plural oibleagáidí)

  1. obligation
    Tá sé d’oibleagáid orm é a dhéanamh.
    I am obliged to do it.
    • 1899, Franz Nikolaus Finck, Die araner mundart, volume II (overall work in German), Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 3:
      tā mē fȳ wōrān aibləgəȷ ʒic.
      [Tá mé faoi mhórán oibleagáid dhuit.]
      I am much obliged to you.
      (literally, “I am under a great obligation to you.”)
  2. regards, greetings
    • 1899, Franz Nikolaus Finck, Die araner mundart, volume II (overall work in German), Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 3:
      tōŕ m aibləgəȷ gə də wāhŕ̥!
      [Tabhair m’oibleagáid do do mháthair!]
      Give my regards to your mother.
  3. favor (instance of voluntarily assisting someone)
    • 1899, Franz Nikolaus Finck, Die araner mundart, volume II (overall work in German), Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 3:
      ȷīnī n aibləgəȷ, ə ȷ iər mē, agəs bai mē ān wīx.
      [Déanaidh an oibleagáid a d’iarr mé agus beidh mé an-bhuíoch.]
      Do the favor I asked and I will be very grateful.

Declension

Mutation

Irish mutation
RadicalEclipsiswith h-prothesiswith t-prothesis
oibleagáid n-oibleagáid hoibleagáid not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

  1. oibleagáid”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “obligáid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 3

Further reading

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