adaig
التعريفات والمعاني
== Old Irish ==
=== Etymology 1 ===
From earlier *adekʷī or *adekī, of unknown origin. Similar to Proto-Brythonic *exuɨð (“evening”), whose etymology is equally obscure.
Possibly cognate with Latin āter (“dark”) or Sanskrit अन्ध (andha, “blind”), though these comparisons are also difficult.
==== Pronunciation ====
IPA(key): /ˈa.ðəɣʲ/
(Blasse) [ˈa.ðɪɣʲ]
(Griffith) [ˈa.ðɨɣʲ]
==== Noun ====
adaig f (genitive aidche or aithche, nominative plural aidchi or aithgi)
night
For quotations using this term, see Citations:adaig.
===== Declension =====
===== Descendants =====
Middle Irish: adaig, aidche, oidche
Irish: oíche, adhaigh
Manx: oie
Scottish Gaelic: oidhche
==== Mutation ====
==== Further reading ====
Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 adaig”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
=== Etymology 2 ===
From ad- + aigid.
==== Pronunciation ====
IPA(key): /aðˈaɣʲ/
==== Verb ====
ad·aig
to drive, impel
For quotations using this term, see Citations:adaig.
===== Conjugation =====
This verb has no prototonic forms or verbal noun of its own; those of aigid are used instead.
==== Mutation ====
==== Further reading ====
Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “ad·aig”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language