éagaoin

Irish

Alternative forms

  • éagcaoin, eugcaoin (obsolete)[1]

Etymology

From Middle Irish écaínid.[2] By surface analysis, éa- +‎ caoin.

Pronunciation

Verb

éagaoin (present analytic éagaoineann, future analytic éagaoinfidh, verbal noun éagaoineadh, past participle éagaointe) (ambitransitive)

  1. to lament, complain (of), moan, bemoan

Conjugation

Noun

éagaoin f (genitive singular éagaoine)

  1. verbal noun of éagaoin

Mutation

Mutated forms of éagaoin
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
éagaoin n-éagaoin héagaoin 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. ^ éagaoin”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “éccaínid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899), Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), Zweiter Band: Wörterbuch [Second volume: Dictionary], Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 93
  4. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906), A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 138, page 54

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