uiging

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish ucing, from Old Norse víkingr.

Noun

uiging m (genitive singular uiging, nominative plural uigingí) (literary, historical)

1. fleet (of pirate ships)
2. viking, sea rover, pirate

Declension

Declension of uiging (fourth declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative uiging uigingí vocative a uiging a uigingí genitive uiging uigingí dative uiging uigingí forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an t-uiging na huigingí genitive an uiging na n-uigingí dative leis an uiging don uiging leis na huigingí

Derived terms

• Uigingeach
• Mac Uiginn (surname)
  • → English: Kiggins, McGuigan
• Ó hUiginn (surname)
  • → English: Higgins, O'Higgins

Mutation

Mutated forms of uiging

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
uiging	n-uiging	huiging	t-uiging

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

Further reading

• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “uiging”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 775
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “uiging”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN