eagla
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Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle Irish ecla.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Munster) IPA(key): /ˈaɡəl̪ˠə/
- (Aran) IPA(key): /ˈaːɡlə/
- (Connemara, Mayo) IPA(key): /ˈaɡlˠə/
- (Ulster) IPA(key): /ˈɨ̞ɡlˠə/
Noun
[edit]eagla f (genitive singular eagla)
- fear (with ar + the person fearing and roimh + the person or thing feared)
- Synonym: faitíos
- Tá eagla orm roimh damháin alla.
- I am afraid of spiders.
- (literally, “Fear is on me before spiders.”)
- Tháinig eagla air.
- He became afraid.
- (literally, “Fear came upon him.”)
- Bhuail eagla í.
- She was seized with fear.
- (literally, “Fear struck her.”)
- Chuiris eagla orm.
- You frightened me.
- (literally, “You put fear on me.”)
Declension
[edit]Declension of eagla
Bare forms (no plural of this noun)
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Forms with the definite article
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Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Mutation
[edit]Irish mutation | |||
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Radical | Eclipsis | with h-prothesis | with t-prothesis |
eagla | n-eagla | heagla | not applicable |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading
[edit]- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “ecla”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “eagla”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 275
- Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 31
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “eagla”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 42
- Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 75