eagla
Irish
Noun
eagla f (genitive singular eagla)
- fear (with ar + the person fearing and roimh + the person or thing feared)
- Tá eagla orm roimh damháin alla.
- I am afraid of spiders. (lit. ‘Fear is on me before spiders.’)
- Tháinig eagla air.
- He became afraid. (lit. ‘Fear came upon him.’)
- Bhuail eagla í.
- She was seized with fear. (lit. ‘Fear struck her.’)
- Synonym: faitíos
Declension
Declension of eagla
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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Derived terms
- cuir eagla ar
- eaglach
- eaglaí
Related terms
Mutation
| Irish mutation | |||
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| Radical | Eclipsis | with h-prothesis | with t-prothesis |
| eagla | n-eagla | heagla | not applicable |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | |||
References
- “ecla” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
- “eagla” in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, Irish Texts Society, 2nd ed., 1927, by Patrick S. Dinneen.
- Finck, F. N. (1899), Die araner mundart, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, vol. II, p. 31.
- "eagla" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
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