ficheall

Irish

Ficheall

Etymology

From Old Irish fidchell, from fid (“wood”) + cíall (“intelligence”).

Pronunciation

• (Munster) IPA: [ˈfʲɪhəl̪ˠ]
• (Connacht) IPA: [ˈfʲɪhəl̪ˠ], [fʲiːl̪ˠ]
• (Ulster) IPA: [ˈfʲɪçəl̪ˠ]

Noun

ficheall f (genitive fichille)

1. chess (two-player board game)

Declension

Declension of ficheall

Second declension

Bare forms (no plural form of this noun) Case Singular Nominative ficheall Vocative a fhicheall Genitive fichille Dative ficheall

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Nominative an fhicheall Genitive na fichille Dative leis an bhficheall don fhicheall

Derived terms

• fear fichille (“chess piece, chessman”)
• fichillín (“pawn”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
ficheall	fhicheall	bhficheall
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.