ordóg

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See also: ördög

Irish

FWOTD – 29 November 2024
ordóg

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Irish ordu (“thumb, big toe”) +‎ -óg.[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

ordóg f (genitive singular ordóige, nominative plural ordóga)

  1. thumb; big toe
    • 1899, Franz Nikolaus Finck, Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect], volume II (overall work in German), Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 12:
      tā ə h-aurdōg bŕišcə.
      [Tá a hordóg briste.]
      Her thumb is broken.
      tā alt ə h-aurdōǵ ĺūntə.
      [Tá alt a hordóige leonta.]
      Her thumb joint is sprained.
  2. claw, pincers (of a crustacean)
  3. bit, piece, fragment

Declension

Declension of ordóg (second declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative ordóg ordóga
vocative a ordóg a ordóga
genitive ordóige ordóg
dative ordóg
ordóig (archaic, dialectal) 		ordóga
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an ordóg na hordóga
genitive na hordóige na n-ordóg
dative leis an ordóg
leis an ordóig (archaic, dialectal)
don ordóg
don ordóig (archaic, dialectal) 		leis na hordóga

Synonyms

Hypernyms

  • méar (“finger, toe”)

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of ordóg
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
ordóg n-ordóg hordóg 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. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “ordóg”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 12
  3. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 31, page 16

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