deagha

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish dedga (“centaury”). Compare Scottish Gaelic i-teodha (“hemlock”).

Noun

deagha m (genitive singular deagha)

1. centaury

Declension

Declension of deagha (fourth declension, no plural)

bare forms case singular nominative deagha vocative a dheagha genitive deagha dative deagha forms with the definite article case singular nominative an deagha genitive an deagha dative leis an deagha don deagha

Mutation

Mutated forms of deagha

radical	lenition	eclipsis
deagha	dheagha	ndeagha

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

Further reading

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