augaire

== Old Irish == === Alternative forms === ugaire === Etymology === From Proto-Celtic *owi-garyos, from *owis (“sheep”) +‎ *gar- (“to call”) +‎ *-yos (agent noun suffix), literally “sheep-caller”. The evolution of the first vowel of this word is irregular; the expected outcome of this compound would be **uígire. === Noun === augaire m shepherd ==== Inflection ==== ==== Descendants ==== Middle Irish: áegaire, óegaire Classical Gaelic: aodhaire Irish: aoire === Mutation === === Further reading === Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “oegaire”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language