maorga

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Irish máerda.[1] By surface analysis, maor (“supervisor, overseer”) +‎ -ga.

Pronunciation

Adjective

maorga

  1. dignified, noble, stately
    • 1939, Peig Sayers, “Inghean an Cheannaidhe”, in Marie-Louise Sjoestedt, Description d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (Bibliothèque de l'École des Hautes Études; 270) (overall work in French), Paris: Librairie Honoré Champion, page 193:
      Do thuill sí an ainm sin mar ni raibh sa bhaile mhór aon chailín comh deas comh maordha léi.
      She earned that name because there was in the city no girl as pretty and as dignified as she.

Declension
Declension of maorga
Singular Plural (m/f)
Positive Masculine Feminine (strong noun) (weak noun)
Nominative maorga mhaorga maorga;
mhaorga²
Vocative mhaorga maorga
Genitive maorga maorga maorga
Dative maorga;
mhaorga¹		 mhaorga maorga;
mhaorga²
Comparative níos maorga
Superlative is maorga

¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

Mutation
Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
maorga mhaorga not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References
  1. G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “maerda”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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