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Irish
Etymology 1
From Old Irish éicin (“some, a certain”), in origin a dative form of éicen (see modern éigean).[1]
- eicín, éicin, éicineach, eicint, eicínt, éicint, éicinteach, éicinteacht, eighinteach, éighinteach, eighinteacht, éighinteacht, éigint, éiginteach, éinteach, éinteacht, innteach, inteach, inteacht, ínteacht[2]
Pronunciation
Determiner
éigin (postpositive)
- some (a certain, unspecified or unknown)
- ar chuma éigin ― in some way
- duine éigin eile ― somebody else
- rud éigin ― something
- 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
- genitive singular of éigean
Noun
éigin f (genitive singular éigne)
- Alternative form of éigean
Mutation
| Irish mutation
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| Radical |
Eclipsis |
with h-prothesis |
with t-prothesis
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| éigin
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n-éigin
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héigin
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not applicable
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| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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References
- ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “éicin”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- ^ “éigin”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 384, page 129