anagal

Irish

Alternative forms

  • anagar

Etymology

Alteration of anagar, from Middle Irish ingor (pus)[1] (whence Scottish Gaelic iongar and, with a different alteration, northern Irish angadh (pus)).[2]

Noun

anagal m (genitive singular anagail)

  1. corrupt matter
  2. dull pain

Declension

Mutation

Irish mutation
RadicalEclipsiswith h-prothesiswith t-prothesis
anagal n-anagal hanagal t-anagal
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

  1. G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “3 ingor”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. O’Rahilly, T. F. (1912) “Review of Paul Walsh’s edition of Bishop Gallagher’s Seacht Seanmóir Déag”, in Gadelica, volume 1, page 70

Further reading

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