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Gaeilge
Gaeilge
Irish
Alternative forms
- Archaic
- Gaedhealg
- Munster
- Ulster
- Gaedhlaing
- Gaeilg
- Gaeilic
- Gaedhlag
Proper noun
Gaeilge f (genitive Gaeilge)
- the Irish language
- 1899, Franz Nikolaus Finck, Die araner mundart, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, vol. II, p. 123:
- šḱŕīvn̥̄ šē n ʒēlǵə gə rī wȧ.
- conventional orthography: Scríobhann sé an Ghaeilge go rí-mhaith.
- He writes Irish very well.
- conventional orthography: Scríobhann sé an Ghaeilge go rí-mhaith.
- šḱŕīvn̥̄ šē n ʒēlǵə gə rī wȧ.
- 1899, Franz Nikolaus Finck, Die araner mundart, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, vol. II, p. 123:
- Gaelic (any Goidelic language)
Declension
Declension of Gaeilge
Fourth declension
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Bare forms (no plural of this noun)
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Forms with the definite article
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Synonyms
- (Irish language): Gaeilge na hÉireann
- (Modern Irish): Nua-Ghaeilge
Derived terms
- Gaeilge Mhanann
- Gaeilge na hAlban
- Gaeilge na hÉireann
- Gaeilgeoir
Mutation
| Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| Gaeilge | Ghaeilge | nGaeilge |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
References
- “Gaeḋealg” in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, Irish Texts Society, 1927, by Patrick S. Dinneen.