fiacháil
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Irish[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Scottish Gaelic feuchail (from Middle Irish fégaid, féchaid and thus related to féach (“to look”)), as shown by both the phonology (the change of Middle Irish é to /ia̯/ is typical of Scottish Gaelic but not of Ulster Irish) and the semantic shift from “look” to “test, taste”.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
fiacháil f (genitive singular fiachála, nominative plural fiachálacha) (Ulster)
Declension[edit]
Declension of fiacháil
Bare forms:
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Forms with the definite article:
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Mutation[edit]
Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
fiacháil | fhiacháil | bhfiacháil |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References[edit]
- ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 9
Further reading[edit]
- “fiacháil”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “féaċáil”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 301
- Entries containing “fiacháil” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “fiacháil”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “fiacháil”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN