úa

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ua"

North Marquesan

Numeral

úa

1. two

Old Irish

Etymology 1

From Proto-Celtic *aw (“away”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ew (“away, down”).

Conjunction

úa

1. Alternative form of ó (“since”)

Preposition

úa

1. Alternative form of ó

Etymology 2

Univerbation of úa (“from”) +‎ a (“his/her/its/their”)

Determiner

úa (‘his’ and ‘its’ trigger lenition; ‘her’ triggers /h/-prothesis; ‘their’ triggers eclipsis)

1. from his/her/its/their

Etymology 3

úa (“from”) +‎ -a (relative pronoun)

Pronoun

úa·

1. from/of/by whom/which

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
úa	unchanged	n-úa
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 ó (preposition)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 ó (conjunction)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “úa”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language‎^[1], Stirling, →ISBN
• Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 50
• Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940, reprinted 2017) D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, page 274

South Marquesan

Numeral

úa

1. two

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ʔuə˧˦]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [ʔuə˨˩˦]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [ʔuə˦˥]

Adjective

úa • (𦼇, 𪹪, 𬅂)

1. sear, withered

Verb

úa • (𦼇, 𪹪, 𬅂)

1. to wither

Related terms

• héo

Yámana

Noun

úa

1. man