fíacail
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See also: fiacail
Old Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]An ancient etymology derives it from Latin fīgō (“to fix”), the idea being that a tooth is a "mouth fixture";[1] this explanation is impossible on phonological grounds and extremely unlikely on semantic ones. More recently, MacBain suggests a connection with Middle Irish fec (“spade, tooth, tusk”),[2] assuming that the latter is actually *féc; the two would then both be from Proto-Celtic *wēkkā of unknown origin.[3]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]fíacail m or f (genitive fíacla or fíaclu, nominative plural fíaclai)
- tooth
- c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 56d4
- húa détnaig a fíaclae fri alailiu
- by the gnashing of their teeth against each other
- c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 56d4
Inflection
[edit]Unknown gender i-stem | |||
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Singular | Dual | Plural | |
Nominative | fíacail | fíacailL | fíaclaiH |
Vocative | fíacail | fíacailL | fíaclaiH |
Accusative | fíacailN | fíacailL | fíaclaiH |
Genitive | fíacloH, fíaclaH | fíacloH, fíaclaH | fíaclaeN |
Dative | fíacailL | fíaclaib | fíaclaib |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Derived terms
[edit]- clárḟíacail (“incisor”)
- fíacail fostóigh (“canine tooth”)
Descendants
[edit]Mutation
[edit]Scottish Gaelic mutation | |
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Radical | Lenition |
fíacail | fhíacail |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References
[edit]- ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “fíacail”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “fec”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- ^ MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “fíacail”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language[1], Stirling, →ISBN, page 172
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