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North Marquesan
Numeral
úa
- two
Old Irish
Etymology 1
From Proto-Celtic *aw (“away”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ew (“away, down”).
Conjunction
úa
- Alternative form of ó (“since”)
Preposition
úa
- Alternative form of ó
Etymology 2
Univerbation of úa (“from”) + a (“his/her/its/their”)
Determiner
úa (‘his’ and ‘its’ trigger lenition; ‘her’ triggers /h/-prothesis; ‘their’ triggers eclipsis)
- from his/her/its/their
Etymology 3
úa (“from”) + -a (relative pronoun)
Pronoun
úa·
- from/of/by whom/which
Mutation
Mutation of úa
radical |
lenition |
nasalization
|
úa (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)
|
unchanged
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n-úa
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Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Further reading
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 ó (preposition)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 ó (conjunction)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “úa”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Stirling, →ISBN
- Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 50
- Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940) D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, page 274; reprinted 2017
South Marquesan
Numeral
úa
- Alternative spelling of ʻua (“two”)
Vietnamese
Pronunciation
Adjective
úa • (𦼇, 𪹪, 𬅂)
- sear, withered
Verb
úa • (𦼇, 𪹪, 𬅂)
- to wither
Yámana
Noun
úa
- man