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Irish
Etymology
From Middle Irish máerda.[1] By surface analysis, maor (“supervisor, overseer”) + -ga.
Pronunciation
Adjective
maorga
- dignified, noble, stately
1939, Peig Sayers, “Inghean an Cheannaidhe”, in Marie-Louise Sjoestedt, Description d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (Bibliothèque de l'École des Hautes Études; 270) (overall work in French), Paris: Librairie Honoré Champion, page 193:Do thuill sí an ainm sin mar ni raibh sa bhaile mhór aon chailín comh deas comh maordha léi.- She earned that name because there was in the city no girl as pretty and as dignified as she.
Declension
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Singular
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Plural (m/f)
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| Positive
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Masculine
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Feminine
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(strong noun)
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(weak noun)
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| Nominative
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maorga
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mhaorga
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maorga;
mhaorga²
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| Vocative
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mhaorga
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maorga
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| Genitive
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maorga
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maorga
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maorga
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| Dative
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maorga;
mhaorga¹
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mhaorga
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maorga;
mhaorga²
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| Comparative
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níos maorga
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| Superlative
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is maorga
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¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.
Mutation
| Irish mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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| maorga
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mhaorga
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not applicable
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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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