deug

• IPA^(key): /dɪø̯χ/

From Dutch deugd, from Middle Dutch dōget, from Old Dutch *dugeth, from Proto-Germanic *dugunþō (“usefulness, virtue”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewgʰ- (“to be ready, be sufficient”).

deug (plural deugde)

1. virtue

• ondeug

From Dutch deugen, from Middle Dutch dōgen, from Old Dutch dugan, from Proto-Germanic *duganą.

deug (present deug, present participle deugende, past participle gedeug)

1. (intransitive) to be appropriate, to be adequate, to be fitting
2. (intransitive) to be decent, to be virtuous

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• Rhymes: -øːx

deug

1. inflection of deugen:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
   3. imperative

Unknown. Originally a u-stem because of the u-coloured e.^[1] Related to Welsh diod (“drink”).

Perhaps from Proto-Celtic *de- (“from”) +‎ *gus (“pouring”) from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰew- (“to pour”), compare Ancient Greek χόη (khóē, “libation”).^[2] Or from Proto-Celtic *dīātis,^[3] from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁(y)- (“to suck”). Or related to *dʰǵʰúHs (“fish”) (see there).

• IPA^(key): /dʲeu̯ɣ/

deug f (genitive dige)

1. drink
   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 27^a24

     Nachib·mided .i. nachib·berar i smachtu rechta fetarlicce, inna ndig et a mbiad, inna llíthu et a ssapati, act bad foirbthe far n‑iress.

     Let him not judge you, i.e. do not be borne into the institutions of the Law of the Old Testament, into their drink and their food, into their festivals and their sabbaths; but let your faith be perfect.

2. draught
3. potion

Feminine ā-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	deugL	digL	deugaH
Vocative	deugL	digL	deugaH
Accusative	digN	digL	deugaH
Genitive	digeH	deugL	deugN
Dative	digL	deugaib	deugaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

• Middle Irish: deog, deoch
  • Irish: deoch
  • Manx: jough
  • Scottish Gaelic: deoch

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
deog	deog pronounced with /ð(ʲ)-/	ndeog
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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

• dheug

From Middle Irish déc, from Old Irish deec, deac, from Proto-Celtic *dekam-kʷe (literally “and ten”), with loss of the first k by dissimilation.^[1] Cognate with Irish déag and Manx jeig.

• IPA^(key): /tʲiək/, /tʃiək/

deug

1. -teen

• Used not as a suffix but as a separate word:

  ochd ― eight

  ochd deug ― eighteen

• deich - ten