gíog

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Irish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Onomatopoeic, though possibly related to the Germanic family that includes German Geige (fiddle).

Noun

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gíog f (genitive singular gíge, nominative plural gíoga)

  1. a cheep, chirp, squeak, tweet
  2. (chiefly in the negative) a word, peep
    Níor labhair mé gíog.
    I never said a word.
    Níl gíog cloiste aige óna dheirfiúr.
    He hasn’t heard a peep from his sister.

Declension

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Declension of gíog (second declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative gíog gíoga
vocative a ghíog a ghíoga
genitive gíge gíog
dative gíog
gíg (archaic, dialectal)
gíoga
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an ghíog na gíoga
genitive na gíge na ngíog
dative leis an ngíog
leis an ngíg (archaic, dialectal)
don ghíog
don ghíg (archaic, dialectal)
leis na gíoga

Derived terms

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Verb

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gíog (present analytic gíogann, future analytic gíogfaidh, verbal noun gíogadh, past participle gíogtha)

  1. to cheep, chirp, squeak, tweet
  2. to crow (utter a sound of joy)

Conjugation

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Mutation

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Mutated forms of gíog
radical lenition eclipsis
gíog ghíog ngíog

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

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  1. ^ giucs”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ gíog”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy

Further reading

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