FromMiddle Irishi n-agid(“against”, literally“in the face of”), fromOld Irishagad(“face”).[2]
inaghaidh (plus genitive or possessive determiner,triggers no mutation)
- contrary to
- Synonym:contrártha le
- opposedto,against
- Synonyms:i gcoinne,in éadan
- an comhracin aghaidh na sceimhlitheoireachta ―the fight against terrorism
1899, Franz Nikolaus Finck,Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect], volume II (overall work in German), Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page4:gax uəŕ, dā veḱn̥̄ šēd ə çēlə, biən̄ šēdə n-ai ə çēlə.- [Gach uair dá fheiceann siad a chéile, bíonn siadin aghaidh a chéile]
- Every time they see each other, they areopposed to each other.
vī mē eǵ ə gūŕc əńḗ, vī n imr̥kə menīə m ai, agəs buəlū mē sə gūš.- [Bhí mé ag an gcúirt inné, bhí an iomarca mionnaíi m’aghaidh, agus bualadh mé sa gcúis.]
- I was in court yesterday; there were too many oathsagainst me and I lost the case.
1981,An Bíobla Naofa, Matthew 18:21:A Thiarna, cé mhéad uair ba cheart dom pardún a thabhairt do mo bhráthair nuair a chiontaíonni m’aghaidh?- O Lord, how many times must I forgive my brother when he sinsagainst me?
2015 [2014], Will Collins, translated by Proinsias Mac a' Bhaird, edited by Maura McHugh,Amhrán na Mara (fiction; paperback), Kilkenny, County Kilkenny; Howth, Dublin: Cartoon Saloon; Coiscéim, translation ofSong of the Sea (in English),→ISBN, page 2:Briseann tonnta bogain aghaidh na gcarraigeacha thíos faoi.- [original:Waves gently lapagainst the rocks below.]
- (sports)versus
- ^“i n-aghaidh”, inHistorical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- ^Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “agad, aiged”, ineDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904), “aġaiḋ”, inFoclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society,page 7
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “in aghaidh”, inFoclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm,→ISBN
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959), “in aghaidh”, inEnglish-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- “in aghaidh”, inNew English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge,2013–2026
