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iaigh

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Irish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Old Irish íadaid,[2] from Proto-Celtic *eɸidāti, a prefixed derivative of *dāti (to give).[3][4] Cognate with Scottish Gaelic iadh.

Verb

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iaigh (present analytic iann, future analytic iafaidh, verbal noun iamh, past participle iata)

  1. (ambitransitive) to close, shut
    Synonym: dún
    Bhí na súile ag iamh orm.
    I could not keep my eyes open.
    (literally, “The eyes were closing on me.”)
  2. (transitive) to enclose, encompass
  3. (ambitransitive) to block up, close up, dam
  4. (ambitransitive) to join [with le ‘with’]
  5. (transitive) to clench (close tightly) (one's fist)

Conjugation

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Mutation

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Mutated forms of iaigh
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
iaigh n-iaigh hiaigh not applicable

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

References

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  1. ^ iaigh”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “íadaid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*efirom”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 113-114
  4. ^ Gordon, Randall Clark (2012) Derivational Morphology of the Early Irish Verbal Noun, Los Angeles: University of California, § 3.1.36, pages 191–92

Further reading

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