uiging

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Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish ucing, from Old Norse víkingr.[1]

Noun

uiging m (genitive singular uiging, nominative plural uigingí) (literary, historical)

  1. fleet (of pirate ships)
  2. viking, sea rover, pirate

Declension

Declension of uiging (fourth declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative uiging uigingí
vocative a uiging a uigingí
genitive uiging uigingí
dative uiging uigingí
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an t-uiging na huigingí
genitive an uiging na n-uigingí
dative leis an uiging
don uiging 		leis na huigingí

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of uiging
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
uiging n-uiging huiging t-uiging

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), “ucing”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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