dúghorm

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Irish dubgorm.[2] By surface analysis, dú- (“black”) +‎ gorm (“blue”).

Pronunciation

  • (Munster) IPA(key): /ˈd̪ˠʊvˠˌɣʌɾˠəmˠ/[3] (corresponding to the spelling dubh-ghorm)

Adjective

dúghorm (genitive singular masculine dúghoirm, genitive singular feminine dúghoirme, plural dúghorma, comparative dúghoirme)

  1. dark blue, navy blue

Declension

Declension of dúghorm
Positive singular plural
masculine feminine strong noun weak noun
nominative dúghorm dhúghorm dúghorma;
dhúghorma2
vocative dhúghoirm dúghorma
genitive dúghoirme dúghorma dúghorm
dative dúghorm;
dhúghorm1 		dhúghorm;
dhúghoirm (archaic) 		dúghorma;
dhúghorma2
Comparative níos dúghoirme
Superlative is dúghoirme

1 When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
2 When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

Mutation

Mutated forms of dúghorm
radical lenition eclipsis
dúghorm dhúghorm ndúghorm

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

References

  1. ^ Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “duḃ-ġorm”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 267
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “dub”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 242, page 122

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