agairg

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish agairc, borrowed from Latin agaricum (“larch fungus, tinder fungus”), from Ancient Greek ἀγαρικόν (agarikón, “Phellinus pomaceus”).

Noun

agairg f (genitive singular agairge)

1. agaric

Declension

Declension of agairg (second declension, no plural)

bare forms case singular nominative agairg vocative a agairg genitive agairge dative agairg forms with the definite article case singular nominative an agairg genitive na hagairge dative leis an agairg don agairg

Derived terms

• agairg na gcuileanna (“fly agaric”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of agairg

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
agairg	n-agairg	hagairg	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

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “agairg”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “agairc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language