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droichead

droichead

Irish

droichead

Noun

droichead m (genitive singular droichid, nominative plural droichid)

  1. (architecture, nautical, music) bridge
    • 1899, Franz Nikolaus Finck, Die araner mundart, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, vol. II, p. 70:
      vī mē mə hȧsə ŕ n̥ drehəd.
      conventional orthography: Bhí mé i mo sheasamh ar an droichead.
      I was standing on the bridge.

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Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
droichead dhroichead ndroichead
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

  • drochet” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
  • “droiċead” in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, Irish Texts Society, 1927, by Patrick S. Dinneen.
  • Tomás de Bhaldraithe, 1975, The Irish of Cois Fhairrge, Co. Galway: A Phonetic Study, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, section 37.
  • "droichead" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.