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éagsúil

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Irish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Old Irish écsamail, from é- (un-) + cosmail (similar).[2] Same construction as éagosúil, which was re-formed later from the same elements.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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éagsúil (genitive singular masculine éagsúil, genitive singular feminine éagsúla, plural éagsúla, comparative éagsúla)

  1. unlike, dissimilar
    Synonym: difriúil
  2. different, various, diverse
    Synonym: difriúil
  3. showy

Declension

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Declension of éagsúil
Positive singular plural
masculine feminine
nominative éagsúil éagsúil éagsúla
vocative éagsúil éagsúla
genitive éagsúla strong noun weak noun
éagsúla éagsúil
dative éagsúil éagsúil éagsúla
Comparative níos éagsúla
Superlative is éagsúla

Derived terms

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Mutation

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Mutated forms of éagsúil
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
éagsúil n-éagsúil héagsúil 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

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  1. ^ éagsúil”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “écsamail”, 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, § 237, page 120

Further reading

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