Irish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Old Irish écsamail, from é- (un-) + cosmail (similar).[2] Same construction as éagosúil, which was re-formed later from the same elements.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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éagsúil (genitive singular masculine éagsúil, genitive singular feminine éagsúla, plural éagsúla, comparative éagsúla)

  1. unlike, dissimilar
    Synonym: difriúil
  2. different, various, diverse
    Synonym: difriúil
  3. showy

Declension

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Derived terms

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Mutation

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

References

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  1. ^ éagsúil”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “écsamail”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 237, page 120

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