-ódh

Irish

Alternative forms

• -eodh (after a slender consonant)
• -óchadh (Ulster, archaic, after a broad consonant)
• -eochadh (Ulster, archaic, after a slender consonant)

Pronunciation

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /oːx/ (with devoicing of a preceding voiced consonant)
• (Galway) IPA^(key): (before sé, sí, sibh, siad) /oːtʲ/, (elsewhere) /oːx/ (with devoicing of a preceding voiced consonant)
• (Mayo) IPA^(key): (before sé, sí, sibh, siad) /oːtʲ/, (elsewhere) /oːw/ (with devoicing of a preceding voiced consonant)
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): (before sé, sí, sibh, siad) /ɔːhətʲ/, (elsewhere) /ɔːhu/ (with devoicing of a preceding voiced consonant)

Suffix

-ódh

1. Forms the analytic form of the conditional mood of the second conjugation.

Further reading

• A.J. Hughes (2008) “Roinnt de na príomhshaintréithe canúna- Some key dialect variations”, in Leabhar Mór Bhriathra na Gaeilge - The Great Irish Book (overall work in Irish and English), Béal Feirste = Belfast: Clólann Bhean Mhadagáin = Ben Madigan Press, →ISBN, pages 29-30