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Scottish Gaelic
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Old Irish éc (compare Irish éag), from Proto-Celtic *ankus (compare Middle Welsh angheu), from Proto-Indo-European *neḱ- (compare Ancient Greek νέκυς (nékus), Latin nex).
Verb
eug (past dh'eug, future eugaidh, verbal noun eug or eugadh, past participle eugte)
- (formal) die, expire
Synonyms
Etymology 2
From Old Irish écaid (“dies”, verb); compare above.
Noun
eug m (genitive singular èig)
- verbal noun of eug
- (formal) death, demise
- (with definite article) Death
References
- Edward Dwelly (1911) “eug”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “éc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “écaid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language