augaire

Old Irish

Alternative forms

ugaire

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *owi-garyos, from *owis (“sheep”) +‎ *gar- (“to call”) +‎ *-yos (agent noun suffix), literally “sheep-caller”. The evolution of the first vowel of this word is irregular; the expected outcome of this compound would be **uígire.

Noun

augaire m

shepherd

Inflection

Masculine io-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	augaire	augaire^L	augairi^L
Vocative	augairi	augaire^L	augairiu
Accusative	augaire^N	augaire^L	augairiu^H
Genitive	augairi^L	augaire^L	augaire^N
Dative	augairiu^L	augairib	augairib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: ^H = triggers aspiration ^L = triggers lenition ^N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

Middle Irish: áegaire, óegaire
- Classical Gaelic: aodhaire
- Irish: aoire

Mutation

Mutation of *augaire*
radical	lenition	nasalization
augaire (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)	unchanged	n-augaire

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.