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eangach

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Irish

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Possibly a substantivization of Middle Irish engach (checkered, variegated, striped).[2]

Noun

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eangach f (genitive singular eangaí, nominative plural eangacha)

  1. (fishing, computing, etc.) net
  2. (computing, etc.) network
Declension
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Declension of eangach (second declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative eangach eangacha
vocative a eangach a eangacha
genitive eangaí eangach
dative eangach eangacha
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an eangach na heangacha
genitive na heangaí na n-eangach
dative leis an eangach
don eangach
leis na heangacha
Derived terms
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Etymology 2

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From Old Irish engach (variegated; grooved).[3][4] By surface analysis, eang (gusset; notch) +‎ -ach (adjectival suffix).

Adjective

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eangach (genitive singular masculine eangaigh, genitive singular feminine eangaí, plural eangacha, comparative eangaí)

  1. gusseted
  2. patched, checkered
  3. notched, grooved, indented
Declension
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Declension of eangach
singular plural (m/f)
Positive masculine feminine (strong noun) (weak noun)
nominative eangach eangach eangacha
vocative eangaigh eangacha
genitive eangaí eangacha eangach
dative eangach eangach;
eangaigh (archaic)
eangacha
Comparative níos eangaí
Superlative is eangaí

Mutation

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Mutated forms of eangach
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
eangach n-eangach heangach not applicable

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

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  1. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 302, page 106
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “5 engach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 engach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  4. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “3 engach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Further reading

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