eagla

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Irish

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Etymology

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From Middle Irish ecla.[1]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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eagla f (genitive singular eagla)

  1. 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.”)

Declension

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Declension of eagla

Fourth declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun)

Case Singular
Nominative eagla
Vocative a eagla
Genitive eagla
Dative eagla

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular
Nominative an eagla
Genitive na heagla
Dative leis an eagla

don eagla

Derived terms

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Mutation

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Irish mutation
Radical Eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
eagla n-eagla heagla not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “ecla”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 147, page 75
  3. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 31
  4. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 106, page 42

Further reading

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