dea-

See also: Appendix:Variations of "dea"

Irish

Alternative forms

• deagh- (superseded)
• deá- (Cois Fharraige)

Etymology

From Old Irish dag- (“good”), from Proto-Celtic *dagos (“good”) (compare Welsh da).

Pronunciation

• (Aran) IPA^(key): /dʲa/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /dʲeː/

Prefix

dea-

1. good, well-

   Synonyms: deas, maith

Derived terms

Irish terms prefixed with dea-

Mutation

Mutated forms of dea-

radical	lenition	eclipsis
dea-	dhea-	ndea-

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “dea-”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 deg-”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 75
• “dea-”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024