eireog

Irish

Alternative forms

  • eileog, éileog, éilín, éireog, eirín, éirín

Etymology

From Middle Irish eréne (“chick, pullet”) +‎ -óg, from a derivative of Proto-Celtic *yarā (whence Welsh iâr (“hen”) and Cornish/Breton yar), perhaps originally *ɸiɸeros if related to Latin pīpiō (“to cheep”) and Sanskrit पिप्पका (pippakā, “a species of bird”)[1] Cognate with Scottish Gaelic eireag.

Pronunciation

  • (Ulster) IPA(key): /ˈeːɾʲɔɡ/, [ˈei̯ɾʲɔɡ][2] (corresponding to the form éireog)

Noun

eireog f (genitive singular eireoige, nominative plural eireoga)

  1. chick, pullet

Declension

Declension of eireog (second declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative eireog eireoga
vocative a eireog a eireoga
genitive eireoige eireog
dative eireog
eireoig (archaic, dialectal) 		eireoga
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an eireog na heireoga
genitive na heireoige na n-eireog
dative leis an eireog
leis an eireoig (archaic, dialectal)
don eireog
don eireoig (archaic, dialectal) 		leis na heireoga

Mutation

Mutated forms of eireog
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
eireog n-eireog heireog not applicable

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

References

  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*yaro-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 434
  2. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 61

Further reading

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