Irish
- eileog, éileog, éilín, éireog, eirín, éirín[1]
Etymology
From Middle Irish eréne (“chick, pullet”) + -óg,[2] from a derivative of Proto-Celtic *yarā (whence Welsh iâr (“hen”) and Cornish/Breton yar), perhaps originally *ɸiɸeros if related to Latin pīpiō (“to cheep”) and Sanskrit पिप्पका (pippakā, “a species of bird”)[3] Cognate with Scottish Gaelic eireag.
Pronunciation
- (Ulster) IPA(key): /ˈeːɾʲɔɡ/, [ˈei̯ɾʲɔɡ][4] (corresponding to the form éireog)
Noun
eireog f (genitive singular eireoige, nominative plural eireoga)
- chick, pullet
Declension
Declension of eireog (second declension)
| forms with the definite article
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singular
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plural
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| nominative
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an eireog
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na heireoga
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| genitive
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na heireoige
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na n-eireog
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| dative
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leis an eireog
leis an eireoig (archaic, dialectal)
don eireog
don eireoig (archaic, dialectal)
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leis na heireoga
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Mutation
Mutated forms of eireog
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eclipsis |
with h-prothesis |
with t-prothesis
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| eireog
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n-eireog
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heireog
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not applicable
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Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
References
- ^ “eireog”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “eréne, éirín(e)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009), “*yaro-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 434
- ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906), A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 160, page 61
Further reading
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904), “éireog”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 285
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “eireog”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
