saorga
Appearance
Irish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Irish saerda, from saer (“artificer”). By surface analysis, saor + -ga.
Adjective
[edit]saorga (not comparable)
- artificial
- Synonym: bréige
- manmade
- Synonym: de dhéantús an duine
Declension
[edit]singular | plural (m/f) | |||
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Positive | masculine | feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
nominative | saorga | shaorga | saorga; shaorga2 | |
vocative | shaorga | saorga | ||
genitive | saorga | saorga | saorga | |
dative | saorga; shaorga1 |
shaorga | saorga; shaorga2 | |
Comparative | (not comparable) | |||
Superlative | (not comparable) |
1 When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
2 When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Mutation
[edit]radical | lenition | eclipsis |
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saorga | shaorga after an, tsaorga |
not applicable |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Further reading
[edit]- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “saorga”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “saorga”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- “saorga”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2025
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “saerda”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language