agad

See also: agád and agað

English

Interjection

agad

Obsolete form of egad.
- 1693, [William] Congreve, The Old Batchelour, a Comedy. , 2nd edition, London: Peter Buck, , →OCLC, Act II, page 11:
  O here a' comes—Ah my Hector of Troy, vvelcome my Bully, my Back; agad my heart has gone a pit pat for thee.

Anagrams

gada

Irish

Pronunciation

(Cois Fharraige) IPA^(key): /ˈaɡəd̪ˠ/

Pronoun

agad (emphatic agadsa)

Cois Fharraige and Ulster form of agat: second-person singular of ag

Kapampangan

Adverb

agád

immediately, straightaway

References

Michael L. Forman (2019) Kapampangan Dictionary‎, University of Hawaii Press, →ISBN, archived from the original on 29 June 2021, page 3

Old Irish

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈaɣəð/

Etymology 1

Uncertain, possibly related to aigid (“to drive”), similarly to how Latin faciēs (“form, face”) is related to faciō (“to make”).

Alternative forms

aiged

Noun

agad f

Inflection

Feminine ā-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	agad^L	agaid^L	aigthea^H
Vocative	agad^L	agaid^L	aigthea^H
Accusative	agaid^N	agaid^L	aigthea^H
Genitive	aigthe^H	agad^L	agad^N
Dative	agaid^L	aigthib	aigthib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: ^H = triggers aspiration ^L = triggers lenition ^N = triggers nasalization

Synonyms

(face): cuinnsiu, drech, enech, gnúis
(honour): airmitiu, cádus, cattú, enech, fíad, míad, míadamlae, onóir, ordan
(surface): clár, lár, léibenn, tonn, úachtar

Descendants

Irish: aghaidh
Scottish Gaelic: aghaidh

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

·agad

third-person singular past subjunctive of aigid

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
agad	unchanged	n-agad
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

^ Vendryes, Joseph (1959) Lexique Étymologique de l'Irlandais Ancien [Etymological lexicon of Old Irish] (in French), volume A, Dublin, Paris: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, pages 23-24

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish ocut. Cognates include Irish agat and Manx ayd.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈakət̪/, (unstressed) /at̪/
(Lewis) IPA^(key): /ˈajət̪/
(Barra, Skye, Ross-shire) IPA^(key): /ˈaɣəd/
(Argyll) IPA^(key): /ˈa.ət̪/
Hyphenation: a‧gad

Pronoun

agad

second-person singular of aig: at you
A bheil airgead gu leòr agad? ― Do you have enough money? (literally, “Is enough money at you?”)

Inflection

Personal inflection of aig
Number	Person	Simple	Emphatic
Singular	1st	agam	agamsa
	2nd	agad	agadsa
	3rd m	aige	aigesan
	3rd f	aice	aicese
Plural	1st	againn	againne
	2nd	agaibh	agaibhse
	3rd	aca	acasan