Irish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Middle Irish féchaid, fégaid,[2] apparently from Old Irish do·éccai,[3] but with difficulties regarding the second consonant.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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féach (present analytic féachann, future analytic féachfaidh, verbal noun féachaint, past participle féachta)

  1. to look
  2. to try

Conjugation

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Derived terms

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Mutation

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Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
féach fhéach bhféach
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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  1. ^ féach”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “fégaid, féc(h)aid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “do·éccai”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  4. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1938) Description d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ancienne Honoré Champion, page 189
  5. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 177
  6. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 166, page 63

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