feascar
Irish edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Old Irish fescor[2] (compare Manx fastyr and Scottish Gaelic feasgar), from Proto-Celtic *weskʷeros (compare Middle Welsh ucher),[3] from Proto-Indo-European *wek(ʷ)speros (compare Latin vesper and Ancient Greek ἕσπερος (hésperos)).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
feascar m (genitive singular feascair, nominative plural feascair)
Declension edit
Declension of feascar
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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 |
| feascar | fheascar | bhfeascar |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
References edit
- ^ “feascar”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- ^ G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 fescor”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*weskʷero-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 416
Further reading edit
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “feascar”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 306
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “feascar”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN