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Irish
Etymology
From Middle Irish saigteóir (“archer, soldier”), from saiget (“arrow”) (compare modern saighead), from Latin sagitta. By surface analysis, saighead + -óir. Doublet of saighdiúir (“soldier”).
Noun
saighdeoir m (genitive singular saighdeora, nominative plural saighdeoirí)
- archer, bowman
- Synonym: boghdóir
Declension
Derived terms
Mutation
| Irish mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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| saighdeoir
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shaighdeoir
after an, tsaighdeoir
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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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Further reading
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “saigteóir”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “saighdeoir”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “saighdeoir”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- “saighdeoir”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024