eireog
Irish
    
    Alternative forms
    
- eileog, éileog, éilín, éireog, eirín, éirín
Etymology
    
From Middle Irish eréne (“chick, pullet”) + -óg, from a derivative of Proto-Celtic *yarā (whence Welsh iâr (“hen”) and Cornish/Breton yar), perhaps originally *ɸiɸeros if related to Latin pīpiō (“to cheep”) and Sanskrit पिप्पका (pippakā, “a species of bird”)[1] Cognate with Scottish Gaelic eireag.
Declension
    
Declension of eireog
Second declension
| Bare forms 
 | Forms with the definite article 
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Mutation
    
| Irish mutation | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Radical | Eclipsis | with h-prothesis | with t-prothesis | 
| eireog | n-eireog | heireog | not applicable | 
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | |||
References
    
- Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*yaro-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 434
- Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 61
Further reading
    
- “eireog”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “eréne, éirín(e)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “éireog”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 285
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “eireog”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
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