dagh

Manx

Alternative forms

• gagh, gygh, dygh

Etymology

From Middle Irish gach (compare Irish and Scottish Gaelic gach), from Old Irish cach, proclitic form of cách, from Proto-Celtic *kʷākʷos, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷeh₂-kʷo-, see also Old Church Slavonic какъ (kakŭ, “what kind of”), Lithuanian kõks (“what kind of”), Welsh pob.

Determiner

dagh

1. each, every

Derived terms

• dagh ooilley

References

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

Middle English

Noun

dagh

1. alternative form of dogh

Norn

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *dʰegʷʰ-?

Proto-Germanic *dagaz

Old Norse dagr

Norn dagh

Inherited from Old Norse dagr, from Proto-Germanic *dagaz, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *dʰegʷʰ-.

Noun

dagh

1. day

Old Swedish

Noun

dagh

1. accusative singular of dagher