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Irish
- dairiú, darú, doraca, dorg, dorga, doruga, drae, dró
- dairiughadh, doradh, dorugha, doruighe (superseded)
Etymology
From Old Norse dorg[1] (compare Faroese dorg (“fishing line”)), from Proto-Germanic *durgō, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *dʰerǵʰ- (“to bind fast”).
Pronunciation
Noun
dorú m (genitive singular dorú, nominative plural doruithe)
- line (rope, cord or string)
- (specifically) fishing line
- dorú iascaireachta ― fishing line
- iascaireacht le dorú ― line fishing
Chaith sé an dorú amach.- He cast out the line.
Declension
Derived terms
Mutation
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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| dorú
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dhorú
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ndorú
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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
- ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “doruba”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 82
- ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 139
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