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Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish súgrad (“act of playing; diversion, sport, mirth”), possibly related to súcach (“merry, cheerful, pleasant”) and subae (“joy, pleasure, happiness, merriment”).
Pronunciation
Noun
súgradh m (genitive singular súgartha)
- (act of) playing, sporting; amusement, fun
- flirting
Usage notes
Effectively a verbal noun of a verb that has no finite or participial forms.
Declension
Synonyms
Derived terms
- súgrach (“playful, sportive”, adjective)
- súgracht f (“playfulness, sportiveness”)
Mutation
| Irish mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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| súgradh
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shúgradh
after an, tsúgradh
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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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References
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “súgradh”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “súgrad”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language