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Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish aignes (“arguing, pleading; argument”), from aigne (“one learned in law or in the practice of law; lawyer, advocate, pleader”).
Pronunciation
Noun
aighneas m (genitive singular aighnis)
- argument, discussion
- submission (in argument, lawsuit)
- talkativeness; talk, chatter
- address
Declension
Derived terms
Mutation
| Irish mutation
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| Radical |
Eclipsis |
with h-prothesis |
with t-prothesis
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| aighneas
|
n-aighneas
|
haighneas
|
t-aighneas
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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) “aighneas”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “aignes”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language