lorga

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Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Irish lurga. Cognate with Manx lurgey.

Pronunciation

Noun

lorga f (genitive singular lorga, nominative plural lorgaí)

  1. shin (front part of the leg below the knee), shinbone, shank (lower part of the leg)
  2. drumstick (leg bone of a chicken or other fowl)
  3. cannon bone (metatarsal or metacarpal of a horse)
  4. stem (above-ground stalk of a vascular plant, slender supporting member for an individual part of a plant, narrow supporting structure on certain man-made objects)
  5. stalk (stem or main axis of a plant)
  6. staff (long, straight, thick rod or stick)
  7. shaft (e.g. of a golf club)

Declension

Declension of lorga (fourth declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative lorga lorgaí
vocative a lorga a lorgaí
genitive lorga lorgaí
dative lorga lorgaí
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an lorga na lorgaí
genitive na lorga na lorgaí
dative leis an lorga
don lorga 		leis na lorgaí

Archaic declension:

Declension of lorga (fifth declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative lorga luirgne
vocative a lorga a luirgne
genitive lorgan lorgan
dative lorgain loirgnibh
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an lorga na lurigne
genitive na lorgan na lorgan
dative leis an lorgain
don lorgain 		leis na loirgnibh

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