fiagaí

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Irish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Middle Irish fíadaige.[2] By surface analysis, fia (deer) +‎ -aí (agentive suffix). Cognate with Scottish Gaelic fiadhaiche.

Noun

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fiagaí m (genitive singular fiagaí, nominative plural fiagaithe)

  1. hunter

Declension

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Synonyms

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Derived terms

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Mutation

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Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
fiagaí fhiagaí bhfiagaí
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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  1. ^ fiagaí”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “fíadaige”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Further reading

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