fidchell
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle Irish fidchell.
Noun
[edit]fidchell (uncountable)
- An ancient Celtic board game somewhat resembling chess.
Translations
[edit]Celtic board game
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Middle Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Celtic *widukʷēslā (literally “wood intelligence”), from *widus (“wood”) + *kʷēslā (“sense”), cognate with Welsh gwyddbwyll, Cornish gwydhbol, and Breton gwezboell.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]fidchell f (genitive fidchille, nominative plural fidchella)
- An ancient Celtic board game somewhat resembling chess.
Derived terms
[edit]- fidchelda (“pertaining to fidchell”)
- fidchellach (“fidchell player”)
- fidchellacht (“playing fidchell”)
- fidchellaire (“fidchell player”)
- fidchleóracht (“playing fidchell”)
Descendants
[edit]- Irish: ficheall
- Manx: feeal
- Scottish Gaelic: fidhcheall
Mutation
[edit]Middle Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
fidchell | ḟidchell | fidchell pronounced with /β(ʲ)-/ |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading
[edit]- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “fidchell”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Categories:
- English terms borrowed from Middle Irish
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- English lemmas
- English nouns
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- en:Board games
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- sga:Games