ladhróg

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Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From ladhar +‎ -óg.

Pronunciation

Noun

ladhróg f (genitive singular ladhróige, nominative plural ladhróga)

  1. small fork
  2. (railway, chiefly in the plural) switches, catch points

Declension

Declension of ladhróg (second declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative ladhróg ladhróga
vocative a ladhróg a ladhróga
genitive ladhróige ladhróg
dative ladhróg
ladhróig (archaic, dialectal) 		ladhróga
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an ladhróg na ladhróga
genitive na ladhróige na ladhróg
dative leis an ladhróg
leis an ladhróig (archaic, dialectal)
don ladhróg
don ladhróig (archaic, dialectal) 		leis na ladhróga

References

  1. ^ “ladhróg”, 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, § 196, page 98

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