Irish

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Etymology

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From Middle Irish foichell, from Old Irish fochell.[1]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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faichill f (genitive singular faichille)

  1. verbal noun of faichill
  2. care, caution
  3. wariness, guardedness

Declension

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Verb

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faichill (present analytic faichilleann, future analytic faichillfidh, verbal noun faichill, past participle faichillte)

  1. (transitive, intransitive, reflexive) be careful, wary, on guard [with ar ‘of, against’]
    Faichill thú féin air.
    Be wary of him.

Conjugation

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Mutation

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Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
faichill fhaichill bhfaichill
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “fochell”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 343, page 118

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