éigin

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See also: eigin and -eigin

Irish

Etymology 1

From Old Irish éicin (“some, a certain”), in origin a dative form of éicen (see modern éigean).[1]

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Determiner

éigin (postpositive)

  1. some (a certain, unspecified or unknown)
    ar chuma éigin ― in some way
    duine éigin eile ― somebody else
    rud éigin ― something
  2. some (approximately)
    céad éigin ― a hundred or so
    fiche éigin punt ― some twenty pounds
Synonyms
  • (a certain, unspecified or unknown): inteacht

Further reading

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

Noun

éigin m

  1. genitive singular of éigean

Noun

éigin f (genitive singular éigne)

  1. Alternative form of éigean

Mutation

Mutated forms of éigin
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
éigin n-éigin héigin 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

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “éicin”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ “éigin”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  3. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 384, page 129
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