farsaing
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Scottish Gaelic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Irish fairsiung.[1] Cognate with Irish fairsing.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]farsaing
Synonyms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]- ceàrn farsaing (“obtuse angle”)
- fad is farsaing (“far and wide”)
- farsaingeachd (“width; area”)
- san fharsaingeachd (“in general; extensively”)
Mutation
[edit]| Scottish Gaelic mutation | |
|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition |
| farsaing | fharsaing |
| 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), “farsaing”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language