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Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish aigne m (“one learned in law or in the practice of law; lawyer, advocate, pleader”).
Noun
aighne m (genitive singular aighne, nominative plural aighní)
- (law) pleader, advocate
Declension
Derived terms
Mutation
| Irish mutation
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| Radical |
Eclipsis |
with h-prothesis |
with t-prothesis
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| aighne
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n-aighne
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haighne
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t-aighne
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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
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “aighne”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “aigne”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Scottish Gaelic
Noun
aighne f sg
- genitive singular of aghann (“(frying) pan”)
Mutation
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.