ágh

See also: agh, àgh, and -agh

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish ág (“fight, battle, contest; prowess, valour”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ- (“to drive”).

Noun

ágh m (genitive singular áigh)

1. battle, contest
2. prowess, valour
3. danger, peril; fearfulness
4. success, good luck

Declension

Declension of ágh

First declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun) Case Singular Nominative ágh Vocative a áigh Genitive áigh Dative ágh

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Nominative an t-ágh Genitive an áigh Dative leis an ágh don ágh

Derived terms

• ághdha (“warlike”)
• ághmhar (“warlike”)

Mutation

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

Further reading

• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “áġ”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 7
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “ágh”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “2 ág”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language