agh

agh

1. An exclamation of mild horror, disgust or frustration

• HGA, Hag., gah, gha, hag

• IPA^(key): [æːx]

agh f (plural ahow)

1. race, ethnicity

   Synonym: hil

agh!

1. oh!
2. fie!

   Synonym: fi!

From Old Irish ag (“bullock, cow, ox”).

agh f or m (genitive singular aighe, nominative plural agha)

1. (literary) cow, ox

• "agh" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• “aġ” in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, Irish Texts Society, 2nd ed., 1927, by Patrick S. Dinneen.
• “ag” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

From Old Irish acht (“but, except”), from Proto-Celtic *extos, from Proto-Indo-European *eǵʰs.

agh

1. but

   By vie lhiam cur da'n chayt ayd agh cha bloys dou.

   I'd like to lash your cat but I dare not.

2. albeit
3. only

   Cha daink eh agh dy akin cre va goll.

   He only came to see what was doing.

4. less
5. except

From Old Irish ech, from Proto-Celtic *ekʷos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁éḱwos (“horse”).

agh m (genitive singular agh, plural aghyn)

1. steed
2. riding horse

• “acht” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
• “ech” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

agh

1. ugh (to express disgust)

From Old Irish ag (“bullock, cow, ox”).

• IPA^(key): [ɤɣ]

agh f (genitive singular aighe, plural aighean)

1. heifer, young cow

   agh thrì bliadhna a dh'aois ― a heifer three years old

   reamhar mar agh ― fat as a heifer

   luaithre aighe ― the ashes of a heifer

   Oidhche Fhéill Eoin theirear “aighean” ris na gamhna ― on St. John's Eve the stirks are called heifers.

2. hind, fawn

   air tòir nan agh ciar ― in pursuit of the dusky fawns

3. (rare) ox, bull, cow

• Faclair Gàidhlig Dwelly Air Loidhne, Dwelly, Edward (1911), Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic-English Dictionary (10th ed.), Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• “ag” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.