maorga

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Irish máerda.[1] By surface analysis, maor (“supervisor, overseer”) +‎ -ga.

Pronunciation

Adjective

maorga

  1. dignified, noble, stately
    • 1939, Peig Sayers, “Inghean an Cheannaidhe”, in Marie-Louise Sjoestedt, Description d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (Bibliothèque de l'École des Hautes Études; 270) (overall work in French), Paris: Librairie Honoré Champion, page 193:
      Do thuill sí an ainm sin mar ni raibh sa bhaile mhór aon chailín comh deas comh maordha léi.
      She earned that name because there was in the city no girl as pretty and as dignified as she.

Declension

Declension of maorga
Positive singular plural
masculine feminine strong noun weak noun
nominative maorga mhaorga maorga;
mhaorga2
vocative mhaorga maorga
genitive maorga maorga maorga
dative maorga;
mhaorga1 		mhaorga maorga;
mhaorga2
Comparative níos maorga
Superlative is maorga

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 maorga
radical lenition eclipsis
maorga mhaorga 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. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “maerda”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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