deargadaol

Irish

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) Compare daol (“beetle”).

Noun

deargadaol m (genitive singular deargadaoil, nominative plural deargadaoil)

1. devil's coach-horse

Declension

Declension of deargadaol

First declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative deargadaol deargadaoil Vocative a dheargadaoil a dheargadaola Genitive deargadaoil deargadaol Dative deargadaol deargadaoil

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an deargadaol na deargadaoil Genitive an deargadaoil na ndeargadaol Dative leis an deargadaol don deargadaol leis na deargadaoil

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
deargadaol	dheargadaol	ndeargadaol
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “deargadaol”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Entries containing “deargadaol” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.