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Irish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle Irish ocainn, acainn, ocaind, from Old Irish ocunn.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Munster) IPA(key): /əˈɡɪnʲ/, /əˈɣɪnʲ/[1]
- (Galway) IPA(key): /ˈaɡən̠ʲ/, /æn̠ʲ/[2] (corresponding to the form ’ainn)
- (Ulster) IPA(key): /əˈɡɪn̠ʲ/[3]
Pronoun
[edit]againn (emphatic againne)
- first-person plural of ag: at us
References
[edit]- ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1938) Description d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ancienne Honoré Champion, § 107, page 94
- ^ de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1977) Gaeilge Chois Fhairrge: An Deilbhíocht (in Irish), 2nd edition, Institiúid Ard-Léinn Bhaile Átha Cliath [Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies], section 298, page 141
- ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 113, page 44
Scottish Gaelic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle Irish ocainn, from Old Irish ocunn. Cognates include Irish againn and Manx ain.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈakɪɲ/
- (Skye) IPA(key): /ˈa.ɪɲ/
- (Argyll) IPA(key): /aɲ/
- (Perthshire) IPA(key): /ˈaɣɪɲ/
- Hyphenation: a‧gainn
Pronoun
[edit]againn
- first-person plural of aig: at us
- Tha bàta againn. ― We have a boat. (literally, “A boat is at us.”)
Inflection
[edit]| Personal inflection of aig | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number | Person | Simple | Emphatic | ||||||
| Singular | 1st | agam | agamsa | ||||||
| 2nd | agad | agadsa | |||||||
| 3rd m | aige | aigesan | |||||||
| 3rd f | aice | aicese | |||||||
| Plural | 1st | againn | againne | ||||||
| 2nd | agaibh | agaibhse | |||||||
| 3rd | aca | acasan | |||||||
References
[edit]- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “oc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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