# agh
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [æː(x)]

### Interjection

agh
* An exclamation of mild horror, disgust or frustration

### Anagrams

* HGA, hag, Hag., GAH, gha, gah

## Cornish
### Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [æːx]

### Noun

agh f (plural ahow)
* race, ethnicity
    Synonym: hil

### Interjection

agh!
* oh!
* fie!
    Synonym: fi!

## Irish
### Etymology

From Old Irish ag (“bullock, cow, ox”).

### Noun

agh f or m (genitive singular aighe, nominative plural agha)
* (literary) cow, ox

#### Declension

bare forms
case
singular
plural
nominative
agh
agha
vocative
a agh
a agha
genitive
aighe
agh
dative
agh
agha
forms with the definite article
case
singular
plural
nominative
an agh
na hagha
genitive
na haighe
na n-agh
dative
leis an agh don agh
leis na hagha :

#### Derived terms

* agh alla (“deer”)
* agh dára (“in-calf heifer”)

### Mutation

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) “agh”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
* Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927) “aġ”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society
* Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “ag”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

## Manx
### Etymology 1

From Old Irish acht (“but, except”), from Proto-Celtic *extos, from Proto-Indo-European *eǵʰs.

#### Conjunction

agh
* but
    By vie lhiam cur da'n chayt ayd agh cha bloys dou.I'd like to lash your cat but I dare not.
* albeit
* only
    Cha daink eh agh dy akin cre va goll.He only came to see what was doing.
* less
* except

### Etymology 2

From Old Irish ech, from Proto-Celtic *ekʷos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁éḱwos (“horse”).

#### Noun

agh m (genitive singular agh, plural aghyn)
* steed
* riding horse

### References

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

## Portuguese
### Interjection

agh
* ugh (to express disgust)

## Scottish Gaelic
### Etymology

From Old Irish ag (“bullock, cow, ox”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɤɣ/

### Noun

agh f (genitive singular aighe, plural aighean)
* heifer, young cow
    agh thrì bliadhna a dh'aois ― a heifer three years old
    reamhar mar agh ― fat as a heifer
    luaithre aighe ― the ashes of a heifer
    Oidhche Fhéill Eoin theirear “aighean” ris na gamhna ― on St. John's Eve the stirks are called heifers.
* hind, fawn
    air tòir nan agh ciar ― in pursuit of the dusky fawns
* (rare) ox, bull, cow

### Mutation

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

### References

* ↑ Oftedal, M. (1956) A linguistic survey of the Gaelic dialects of Scotland, Vol. III: The Gaelic of Leurbost, Isle of Lewis, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap
* ↑ John MacPherson (1945) The Gaelic dialect of North Uist (Thesis)‎, Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh
* ↑ Borgstrøm, Carl Hj. (1937) The dialect of Barra in the Outer Hebrides, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap

### Further reading

* Edward Dwelly (1911) “agh”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
* Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “ag”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language