dea-

See also: dea, Dea, DEA, dèa, de'a, and deá-

Irish

Alternative forms

• deá- (Cois Fharraige)

Etymology

From Old Irish deg-, dag (“good”), from Proto-Celtic *degos (“good”), *dagos (“good”) (compare Welsh da).

Prefix

dea-

1. good, well-

   Synonyms: deas, maith

Derived terms

Irish terms prefixed with dea-

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
dea-	dhea-	ndea-
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “dea-”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 deg-”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• “dea-”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024