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Irish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Middle Irish íargnó.[2] By surface analysis, iar- +‎ gnó.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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iarghnó m (genitive singular iarghnó)

  1. grief, anguish
  2. regret
  3. annoyance
  4. lament, elegy

Declension

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Derived terms

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Mutation

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Irish mutation
Radical Eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
iarghnó n-iarghnó hiarghnó t-iarghnó
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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  1. ^ iarghnó”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 íargnó”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 20

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