fíacail

Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfʲiːa̯kilʲ/

Noun

fíacail m or f (genitive fíacla or fíaclu, nominative plural fíaclai)

1. 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. 56^d4

     “hua détnaig a fiaclae fri alailiu” glosses attritu dentium

Inflection

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Derived terms

• clárḟíacail (“incisor”)
• fíacail fostóigh (“canine tooth”)

Descendants

• Irish: fiacail
• Manx: feeackle
• Scottish Gaelic: fiacal, fiacail

References

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “fíacail”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language