agh

See also: àgh, ágh, and -agh

English

Interjection

agh

  1. An exclamation of mild horror, disgust or frustration

Anagrams

Cornish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [æːx]

Noun

agh f (plural ahow)

  1. race, ethnicity
    Synonym: hil

Interjection

agh!

  1. oh!
  2. fie!
    Synonym: fi!

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish ag (“bullock, cow, ox”).

Noun

agh f, m (genitive singular aighe, nominative plural agha)

  1. (literary) cow, ox

Declension

Derived terms

Mutation

Irish mutation
RadicalEclipsiswith h-prothesiswith t-prothesis
agh n-agh hagh t-agh
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

  • "agh" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
  • “aġ” in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, Irish Texts Society, 2nd ed., 1927, by Patrick S. Dinneen.
  • “ag” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

Manx

Etymology 1

From Old Irish acht (“but, except”), from Proto-Celtic *extos, from Proto-Indo-European *eǵʰs.

Conjunction

agh

  1. but
    By vie lhiam cur da'n chayt ayd agh cha bloys dou.
    I'd like to lash your cat but I dare not.
  2. albeit
  3. only
    Cha daink eh agh dy akin cre va goll.
    He only came to see what was doing.
  4. less
  5. except

Etymology 2

From Old Irish ech, from Proto-Celtic *ekʷos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁éḱwos (“horse”).

Noun

agh m (genitive singular agh, plural aghyn)

  1. steed
  2. riding horse

References

  • “acht” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
  • “ech” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

Portuguese

Interjection

agh

  1. ugh (to express disgust)

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish ag (“bullock, cow, ox”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ɤɣ]

Noun

agh f (genitive singular aighe, plural aighean)

  1. heifer, young cow
    agh thrì bliadhna a dh'aois ― a heifer three years old
    reamhar mar agh ― fat as a heifer
    luaithre aighe ― the ashes of a heifer
    Oidhche Fhéill Eoin theirear “aighean” ris na gamhna ― on St. John's Eve the stirks are called heifers.
  2. hind, fawn
    air tòir nan agh ciar ― in pursuit of the dusky fawns
  3. (rare) ox, bull, cow

Mutation

Scottish Gaelic mutation
RadicalEclipsiswith h-prothesiswith t-prothesis
aghn-aghh-aght-agh
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

  • Faclair Gàidhlig Dwelly Air Loidhne, Dwelly, Edward (1911), Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic-English Dictionary (10th ed.), Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • “ag” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
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