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

Bare forms (no plural form of this noun) 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

Irish mutation
Radical	Eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
agairg	n-agairg	hagairg	not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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