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North Marquesan
Numeral
úa
- two
Old Irish
Etymology 1
From Proto-Celtic *aw (“away”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ew (“away, down”).
Conjunction
úa
- Alternative form of ó (“since”)
Preposition
úa
- Alternative form of ó
Etymology 2
Univerbation of úa (“from”) + a (“his/her/its/their”)
Determiner
úa (‘his’ and ‘its’ trigger lenition; ‘her’ triggers /h/-prothesis; ‘their’ triggers eclipsis)
- from his/her/its/their
Etymology 3
úa (“from”) + -a (relative pronoun)
Pronoun
úa·
- from/of/by whom/which
Mutation
| Old Irish mutation
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| Radical |
Lenition |
Nasalization
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| úa
|
unchanged
|
n-úa
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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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Further reading
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 ó (preposition)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “2 ó (conjunction)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “úa”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Stirling, →ISBN
- Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 50
- Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940, reprinted 2003) D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, page 274
South Marquesan
Numeral
úa
- two
Vietnamese
Pronunciation
Adjective
úa • (𦼇, 𪹪, 𬅂)
- sear, withered
Verb
úa • (𦼇, 𪹪, 𬅂)
- to wither
Related terms
Yámana
Noun
úa
- man