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.

Noun

augaire m

1. shepherd

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: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

• Middle Irish: áegaire, óegaire
  • Classical Gaelic: aodhaire
  • Irish: aoire

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

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “oegaire”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language