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Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish dag- (“good”), from Proto-Celtic *dagos (“good”) (compare Welsh da).
Pronunciation
Prefix
dea-
- good, well-
- Synonyms: deas, maith
Derived terms
Mutation
Irish mutation
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Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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dea-
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dhea-
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ndea-
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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
Further reading
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “dea-”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 deg-”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 75
- “dea-”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024