saorga
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Irish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Irish saerda, from saer (“artificer”). By surface analysis, saor + -ga.
Adjective
[edit]saorga (not comparable)
- artificial
- Synonym: bréige
- manmade
- Synonym: de dhéantús an duine
Declension
[edit]Declension of saorga
| Singular | Plural (m/f) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Positive | Masculine | Feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
| Nominative | saorga | shaorga | saorga; shaorga² | |
| Vocative | shaorga | saorga | ||
| Genitive | saorga | saorga | saorga | |
| Dative | saorga; shaorga¹ |
shaorga | saorga; shaorga² | |
| Comparative | (not comparable) | |||
| Superlative | (not comparable) | |||
¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Mutation
[edit]| Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| saorga | shaorga after an, tsaorga |
not applicable |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
Further reading
[edit]- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “saorga”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “saorga”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- “saorga”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “saerda”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language