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Ogham Letter NG - Ngeadal
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nGéadal (Ngéadal or Ngeadal) is the Irish name of the thirteenth letter of the Ogham alphabet, ᚍ.
Its meaning is probably "[the act of] wounding". In Old Irish, the letter name was Gétal. It may be a verbal noun of gonid 'wounds, slays'. in which case is related to Welsh gwanu 'to pierce, to stab', which comes from the root was *gʷhen- 'to pierce, to strike'. Its original phonetic value in Primitive Irish was [ɡʷ], the voiced labiovelar. In Old Irish, this phoneme merged with g (gort), and the medieval manuscript tradition assigns it Latin ng [ŋ], hence the etymological spelling of the letter name with initial n-.
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Symmetric, Open shape, Monochrome, Contains straight lines, Has crossing lines.
Category: Alphabets.
Ogham Letter NG - Ngeadal is part of the Ogham Alphabeth group.
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