agúid

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish acuit, borrowed from Latin acūtus.

Noun

agúid f (genitive singular agúide, nominative plural agúidí)

1. (linguistics, orthography, typography) acute accent

   Synonym: síneadh fada

Declension

Declension of agúid (second declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative agúid agúidí vocative a agúid a agúidí genitive agúide agúidí dative agúid agúidí forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an agúid na hagúidí genitive na hagúide na n-agúidí dative leis an agúid don agúid leis na hagúidí

Mutation

Mutated forms of agúid

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
agúid	n-agúid	hagúid	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

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “agúid”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “acuit”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Further reading

• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “agúid”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “agúid”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024