ungadh

Irish

Alternative forms

• ongadh

Etymology

From Old Irish ongad. By surface analysis, ung +‎ -adh.

Pronunciation

Noun and autonomous past verb form:

• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈʌŋɡu/

Past habitual and third-person imperative verb forms:

• (Ulster) IPA^(key): (before sé, sí, sibh, siad) /ˈʌŋɡətʲ/, (elsewhere) /ˈʌŋɡu/

Noun

ungadh m (genitive singular ungtha, nominative plural unghtaí)

1. verbal noun of ung (“anoint”)
2. unction, ointment, salve, unguent
3. cream (product to apply to the skin)

Declension

Declension of ungadh (irregular)

bare forms case singular plural nominative ungadh ungthaí vocative a ungadh a ungthaí genitive ungtha ungthaí dative ungadh ungthaí forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an t-ungadh na hungthaí genitive an ungtha na n-ungthaí dative leis an ungadh don ungadh leis na hungthaí

Derived terms

• ungadh déanach (“extreme unction”)
• Ungthach (“Messiah, Christ”)

Verb

ungadh

1. inflection of ung:
   1. autonomous past indicative
   2. analytic past habitual dependent
   3. third-person singular imperative

Mutation

Mutated forms of ungadh

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
ungadh	n-ungadh	hungadh	not applicable

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language