ágh

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See also: agh, àgh, and -agh

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish ág (“fight, battle, contest; prowess, valour”), from Proto-Celtic *āgos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ- (“to drive”).

Noun

ágh m (genitive singular áigh)

  1. battle, contest
  2. prowess, valour
  3. danger, peril; fearfulness
  4. success, good luck

Declension

Declension of ágh (first declension, no plural)
bare forms
case singular
nominative ágh
vocative a áigh
genitive áigh
dative ágh
forms with the definite article
case singular
nominative an t-ágh
genitive an áigh
dative leis an ágh
don ágh

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of ágh
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
ágh n-ágh hágh t-ágh

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

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