Cúige Uladh

Irish

Pronunciation

The placement of main stress on Cúige rather than Uladh is irregular and does not occur in the names of the other provinces (Cúige Chonnacht, Cúige Laighean, Cúige Mumhan).

Proper noun

Cúige Uladh m (genitive Chúige Uladh)

  1. Ulster (the northern province of Ireland, made up of all six Northern Irish counties and three counties in the Republic of Ireland)

Synonyms

Mutation

Mutated forms of Cúige Uladh
radical lenition eclipsis
Cúige Uladh Chúige Uladh gCúige Uladh

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

References

  1. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 482, page 154
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