eangach

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Irish

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Possibly a substantivization of Middle Irish engach (checkered, variegated, striped).[2]

Noun

eangach f (genitive singular eangaí, nominative plural eangacha)

  1. (fishing, computing, etc.) net
  2. (computing, etc.) network
Declension
Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Old Irish engach (variegated; grooved).[3][4] By surface analysis, eang (gusset; notch) +‎ -ach (adjectival suffix).

Adjective

eangach (genitive singular masculine eangaigh, genitive singular feminine eangaí, plural eangacha, comparative eangaí)

  1. gusseted
  2. patched, checkered
  3. notched, grooved, indented
Declension

Mutation

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

  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

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