bagáiste

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Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle English bagage, from Old French bagage, from bague (“bundle”).

Pronunciation

Noun

bagáiste m (genitive singular bagáiste, nominative plural bagáistí)

  1. luggage, baggage
    • 1899, Franz Nikolaus Finck, Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect], volume II (overall work in German), Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 45:
      ȷ iniš šē ʒm̥sə gə ń-imĭōx šē əńú, marəx n̄ax rø ə vøgāšcī rē eǵə.
      [D’inis sé dhomsa go n-imeodh sé inniu, murach nach raibh a bhagáistí réidh aige.]
      He told me that he would leave today, only that he didn’t have his luggage ready.

Usage notes

The plural is rare, but is occasionally found with the same meaning as the singular.

Declension

Declension of bagáiste (fourth declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative bagáiste bagáistí
vocative a bhagáiste a bhagáistí
genitive bagáiste bagáistí
dative bagáiste bagáistí
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an bagáiste na bagáistí
genitive an bhagáiste na mbagáistí
dative leis an mbagáiste
don bhagáiste 		leis na bagáistí

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of bagáiste
radical lenition eclipsis
bagáiste bhagáiste mbagáiste

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

  1. ^ “bagáiste”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 21
  3. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 45

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