Gaoidhealg

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Classical Gaelic

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Old Irish Goídelc.

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

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Gaoidhealg f (genitive singular Gaoidhilge, dative and accusative singular Gaoidhilg)

  1. Gaelic language, Irish
  2. (grammar) pronunciation, spoken language as opposed to ogham (spelling, written language)
    • a. 1640, Eoin Mac Cárthaigh, editor, The Art of Bardic Poetry: A New Edition of Irish Grammatical Tracts I, published 2014, §2, ll. 80–3, page 56:
      ⁊ dlighidh dā phríomhlocht na soidélach do sheachna, (…) ⁊ an connsuine bháithtear do G[h]āoidheilg do dhénamh d’ogham san chomhfhocal
      and he should avoid the two cardinal faults of the peudo-knowledgeable, (…) and writing the consonant elided in pronunciation in a compound word
    • a. 1640, Eoin Mac Cárthaigh, editor, The Art of Bardic Poetry: A New Edition of Irish Grammatical Tracts I, published 2014, §50, ll. 555–6, page 88:
      Nī cōir na séimhighthe-sin náid a leithéide eile do rádh do G[h]āoidheilg, giodh cōir d’ogham íad
      Such lenition should not be expressed in pronunciation, though it is correct in writing

Declension

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Gaoidhealg, f., ā-stem
Case/Number Singular
Nominative an Ghaoidhealg
Vocative a Ghaoidhealg
Accusative gan an nGaoidhilg
Genitive na Gaoidhilge
Dative don Ghaoidhilg

The unstressed vowel in the second syllable between slender consonants is often spelt ei in this word (don Gháoidheilg, na Gáoidheilge, etc.).

Further reading

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Irish

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Etymology

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From Old Irish Goídelc.

Proper noun

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Gaoidhealg f (genitive Gaoidhilge)

  1. Obsolete form of Gaeilge.

Declension

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Mutation

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Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
Gaoidhealg Ghaoidhealg nGaoidhealg
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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