tógáil

See also: togail

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Irish tócbáil, verbal noun of do·fócaib (“lifts up, raises”); further from Old Irish tocbál. By surface analysis, tóg +‎ -áil, but etymologically tóg is a back-formation from tógáil.

Pronunciation

Noun

tógáil f (genitive singular tógála, nominative plural tógálacha)

  1. verbal noun of tóg
  2. lifting
  3. construction

Declension

Declension of tógáil (third declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative tógáil tógálacha
vocative a thógáil a thógálacha
genitive tógála tógálacha
dative tógáil tógálacha
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an tógáil na tógálacha
genitive na tógála na dtógálacha
dative leis an tógáil
don tógáil 		leis na tógálacha

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of tógáil
radical lenition eclipsis
tógáil thógáil dtógáil

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

  1. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899), Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), Zweiter Band: Wörterbuch [Second volume: Dictionary], Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 240
  2. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906), A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 379, page 127

Further reading

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.