fuireachas

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Etymology[edit]

Dissimilated from earlier fuireachras, from Middle Irish furachrus.[2] By surface analysis, fuireachair +‎ -as. Cognate with Scottish Gaelic furachas.

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Noun[edit]

fuireachas m (genitive singular fuireachais)

  1. (act of) expecting, expectation, (act of) waiting for
  2. watchfulness, vigilance, cautiousness
  3. (military) stand-to

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Mutation[edit]

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
fuireachas fhuireachas bhfuireachas
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References[edit]

  1. ^ fuireachas”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “fuirechras, furachras”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 24

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