daigh

Irish

Alternative forms

doigh

Etymology

From Old Irish daig (“flame, blaze, conflagration, fire”)

Noun

daigh f (genitive singular daighe, nominative plural daitheacha)

(literary) flame, fire
stabbing pain, pang, twinge

Declension

Declension of daigh

Second declension

Bare forms

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	daigh	daigha
Vocative	a dhaigh	a dhaigha
Genitive	daighe	daigh
Dative	daigh	daigha

Forms with the definite article

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	an daigh	na daigha
Genitive	na daighe	na ndaigh
Dative	leis an daigh don daigh	leis na daigha

Related terms

daighear
dóigh

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
daigh	dhaigh	ndaigh
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

"daigh" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “daig”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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