fichead

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Irish

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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fichead m

  1. genitive singular of fiche

Mutation

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Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
fichead fhichead bhfichead
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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  1. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 110

Scottish Gaelic

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Scottish Gaelic numbers (edit)
200
 ←  10  ←  19 20 21  → [a], [b] 30  → [a], [b], [c]
2
    Cardinal: fichead
    Ordinal: ficheadamh
    Ordinal abbreviation: 20mh

Etymology

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From Old Irish fichet (compare Manx feed), genitive singular of fiche (twenty), from Proto-Celtic *wikantī (compare Welsh ugain), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁wih₁ḱm̥t (compare Latin vīgintī), from *dwi(h₁)dḱm̥ti (two-ten).

Pronunciation

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Numeral

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fichead

  1. twenty

Usage notes

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  • The following noun is in the singular:
    fichead leabhartwenty books
  • In the older, vigesimal system of counting in Scottish Gaelic, the numerals 40, 60, 80, 120, 140, 160 and 180 are denoted as multiples of 20, hence:
    fhichead leabharforty books (literally, “two [times] twenty books”)
    seachd fichead leabhar140 books (literally, “seven [times] twenty books”)

Derived terms

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Noun

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fichead m

  1. twenty, score

Mutation

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

Further reading

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  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “fichead”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • MacLennan, Malcolm (1925) A Pronouncing and Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Edinburgh: J. Grant, →OCLC
  • Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “fiche”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language