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
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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
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Mutation

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Irish mutation
Radical Eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
eangach n-eangach heangach not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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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