oibleagáid

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Irish

FWOTD – 23 March 2021

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin obligātiō.[2]

Pronunciation

  • (Aran) IPA(key): /ˈəibˠləɡədʲ/[3] (as if spelled oibleagaid)

Noun

oibleagáid f (genitive singular oibleagáide, nominative plural oibleagáidí)

  1. obligation
    Tá sé d’oibleagáid orm é a dhéanamh.
    I am obliged to do it.
    • 1899, Franz Nikolaus Finck, Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect], volume II (overall work in German), Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 3:
      tā mē fȳ wōrān aibləgəȷ ʒic.
      [Tá mé faoi mhórán oibleagáid dhuit.]
      I am much obliged to you.
      (literally, “I am under a great obligation to you.”)
  2. regards, greetings
    • 1899, Franz Nikolaus Finck, Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect], volume II (overall work in German), Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 3:
      tōŕ m aibləgəȷ gə də wāhŕ̥!
      [Tabhair m’oibleagáid do do mháthair!]
      Give my regards to your mother.
  3. favor (instance of voluntarily assisting someone)
    • 1899, Franz Nikolaus Finck, Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect], volume II (overall work in German), Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 3:
      ȷīnī n aibləgəȷ, ə ȷ iər mē, agəs bai mē ān wīx.
      [Déanaidh an oibleagáid a d’iarr mé agus beidh mé an-bhuíoch.]
      Do the favor I asked and I will be very grateful.

Declension

Declension of oibleagáid (second declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative oibleagáid oibleagáidí
vocative a oibleagáid a oibleagáidí
genitive oibleagáide oibleagáidí
dative oibleagáid oibleagáidí
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an oibleagáid na hoibleagáidí
genitive na hoibleagáide na n-oibleagáidí
dative leis an oibleagáid
don oibleagáid 		leis na hoibleagáidí

Mutation

Mutated forms of oibleagáid
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
oibleagáid n-oibleagáid hoibleagáid not applicable

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

  1. ^ “oibleagáid”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “obligáid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 3

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