feadóg
Irish edit
Etymology edit
From fead (“whistle”) + -óg, from Old Irish fet.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
feadóg f (genitive singular feadóige, nominative plural feadóga)
- (music) whistle (device used to make a whistling sound)
- plover
- tall thin woman
- great horsetail (Equisetum telmateia)
Declension edit
Declension of feadóg
Bare forms
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Forms with the definite article
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Synonyms edit
- (tall thin woman): eilit
Hypernyms edit
- (great horsetail): eireaball capaill
Derived terms edit
- feadóg airde
- feadóg bhuí
- feadóg bhuí Mheiriceánach
- feadóg bósain (“boatswain's pipe”)
- feadóg chladaigh (“ringed plover”)
- feadóg ghlas (“grey plover”)
- feadóg ghlórach
- feadóg mhara (“sandpiper”)
- feadóg mhór (“flute”)
- feadóg shléibhe (“golden plover”)
- feadóg shléibhe
- feadóg stáin (“tin whistle”)
- feadógaí
- feadóigín chladaigh (“little ringed plover”)
- feadóigín chosdubh (“Kentish plover”)
Related terms edit
- feadaíl (“whistle”) (act of whistling)
Mutation edit
Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
feadóg | fheadóg | bhfeadóg |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading edit
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “feadóg”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN