gagar

Old Irish

Borrowed from Old Norse gagarr, from an imitative North Germanic root *gag (“to howl”).^[1]

gagar m

Masculine o-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	gagar	gagar^L	gagair^L
Vocative	gagair	gagar^L	gagru^H
Accusative	gagar^N	gagar^L	gagru^H
Genitive	gagair^L	gagar	gagar^N
Dative	gagar^L	gagaraib	gagaraib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: ^H = triggers aspiration ^L = triggers lenition ^N = triggers nasalization

Mutation of *gagar*
radical	lenition	nasalization
gagar	gagar pronounced with /ɣ(ʲ)-/	ngagar

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

^ MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “gagar”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language‎^[1], Stirling, →ISBN, page gadhar