déag

• IPA^(key): /dʲeːɡ/

déag

1. -teen

• Does not function as a suffix; functions as an entirely separate word. Follows the first part of the numeral as well as the noun (if any). Lenites in attributive numerals when the item counted is in the singular and ends in a vowel or is in the plural and ends in a slender consonant (except cinn):

‎ocht (“eight”) + ‎déag → ‎ocht déag (“eighteen”)

aon bhuachaill déag ― eleven boys

ceithre úll déag ― fourteen apples

cúigear déag ― fifteen (items/things)

dhá ghiota dhéag ― twelve pieces

sé báid dhéag ― sixteen boats

But:

trí madraí déag ― thirteen dogs

seacht dtithe déag ― seventeen houses

naoi gcinn déag ― nineteen (items/things)

Additionally, never lenites in ordinal numerals:

an t-aonú lá déag ― the eleventh day

an ceathrú duine déag ― the fourteenth person

an tseachtú mí déag ― the seventeenth month

• deich (“ten”)