deargadaol

Irish

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) Compare daol (“beetle”).

Noun

deargadaol m (genitive singular deargadaoil, nominative plural deargadaoil)

1. devil's coach-horse

Declension

Declension of deargadaol (first declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative deargadaol deargadaoil vocative a dheargadaoil a dheargadaola genitive deargadaoil deargadaol dative deargadaol deargadaoil forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an deargadaol na deargadaoil genitive an deargadaoil na ndeargadaol dative leis an deargadaol don deargadaol leis na deargadaoil

Mutation

Mutated forms of deargadaol

radical	lenition	eclipsis
deargadaol	dheargadaol	ndeargadaol

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) “deargadaol”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “deargadaol”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm