eitigh

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Irish

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Etymology 1

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From Middle Irish etchid, etigid,[1] from eitech (refusal, refusing), verbal noun of Old Irish as·toing (refuses, literally swears away from, removes by oath).

Verb

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eitigh (present analytic eitíonn, future analytic eiteoidh, verbal noun eiteach, past participle eitithe)

  1. (transitive) refuse, reject
    Proverb: Níor eitigh páipéar bán dúch riamh.Youth is impressionable. (literally “Blank paper never rejected ink.”)
Conjugation
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Noun

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eitigh m sg

  1. genitive singular of eiteach (refusal)

Etymology 2

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Noun

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eitigh m sg

  1. genitive singular of eiteach (wings; plumes, feathers; fins)

Adjective

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eitigh

  1. inflection of eiteach (winged):
    1. masculine vocative/genitive singular
    2. (archaic) dative singular feminine

Mutation

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Mutated forms of eitigh
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
eitigh n-eitigh heitigh not applicable

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

References

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  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “etchid, etigid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Further reading

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