-óidh

Irish

Alternative forms

• -eoidh (after a slender consonant)
• -eochaidh (Ulster, archaic, after a slender consonant)
• -óchaidh (Ulster, archaic, after a broad consonant)

Etymology

From earlier -óchaidh, -eochaidh (still used in Ulster), from Middle Irish -éuchaid, é-future of -igid (from Old Irish -igidir).

Pronunciation

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /oːɟ/
• (Connacht) IPA^(key): /oː(j)/

Suffix

-óidh

1. Forms the analytic form of the future tense 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