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From Middle Irish ecla.[2]
eagla f (genitive singular eagla)
- fear [with ar and the person fearing and roimh and the person or thing feared]
- Synonym: faitíos
Tá eagla orm roimh damháin alla.- I am afraid of spiders.
- (literally, “Fear is on me before spiders.”)
Tháinig eagla air.- He became afraid.
- (literally, “Fear came upon him.”)
Bhuail eagla í.- She was seized with fear.
- (literally, “Fear struck her.”)
Chuiris eagla orm.- You frightened me.
- (literally, “You put fear on me.”)
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
- ^ “eagladh”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “ecla”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 147, page 75
- ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 31
- ^ de Búrca, Seán (1958) The Irish of Tourmakeady, Co. Mayo: A Phonemic Study, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, section 407.8, page 107
- ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 106, page 42
