foirfeach

Irish

Etymology

From foirfe (“complete, perfect; aged, mature”) +‎ -ach.

Noun

foirfeach m (genitive singular foirfigh, nominative plural foirfigh)

1. aged, mature person; elder

Declension

Declension of foirfeach

First declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative foirfeach foirfigh Vocative a fhoirfigh a fhoirfeacha Genitive foirfigh foirfeach Dative foirfeach foirfigh

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an foirfeach na foirfigh Genitive an fhoirfigh na bhfoirfeach Dative leis an bhfoirfeach don fhoirfeach leis na foirfigh

Related terms

• foirfeacht (“completeness, perfection; age, maturity; old age”)
• foirfigh (“to complete, perfect; to age, mature”)

 

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
foirfeach	fhoirfeach	bhfoirfeach
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

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Noun

foirfeach m (genitive singular foirfich, plural foirfich)

1. elder

   Synonym: èildear

Mutation

Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical	Lenition
foirfeach	fhoirfeach
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.