dúghorm

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Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Irish dubgorm.[2] By surface analysis, dú- (black) +‎ gorm (blue).

Pronunciation

Adjective

dúghorm (genitive singular masculine dúghoirm, genitive singular feminine dúghoirme, plural dúghorma, comparative dúghoirme)

  1. dark blue, navy blue

Declension

Declension of dúghorm
singular plural (m/f)
Positive masculine feminine (strong noun) (weak noun)
nominative dúghorm dhúghorm dúghorma;
dhúghorma2
vocative dhúghoirm dúghorma
genitive dúghoirme dúghorma dúghorm
dative dúghorm;
dhúghorm1
dhúghorm;
dhúghoirm (archaic)
dúghorma;
dhúghorma2
Comparative níos dúghoirme
Superlative is dúghoirme

1 When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
2 When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

Mutation

Mutated forms of dúghorm
radical lenition eclipsis
dúghorm dhúghorm ndúghorm

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

References

  1. ^ Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “duḃ-ġorm”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 267
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “dub”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 242, page 122

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