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Irish
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Middle Irish rúac (noun) and rúacaid (verb).
Pronunciation
Noun
ruaig f (genitive singular ruaige, nominative plural ruaigeanna)
- attack (sudden onset of disease)
- Synonym: taom
- rout (convincing defeat)
- Synonym: maidhm
- incursion
- very short or hurried visit
- (literary) course, career
Declension
Verb
ruaig (present analytic ruaigeann, future analytic ruaigfidh, verbal noun ruaigeadh, past participle ruaigthe)
- to drive away, drive out, expel, repel, repulse
- to chase away, chase off
- to rout, put to flight
- to banish
- to disperse (scatter), dispel
- Synonym: scaoil
Conjugation
* indirect relative
† archaic or dialect form
Further reading
- “ruaig”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “rúac, ruaic”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “rúacaid, rúaicid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “ruagaim”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 580
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “ruaig”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 581
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “ruaig”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 59