feascar

Irish

Alternative forms

• feasgar (obsolete)

Etymology

From Old Irish fescor (compare Manx fastyr and Scottish Gaelic feasgar), from Proto-Celtic *weskʷeros (compare Middle Welsh ucher), from Proto-Indo-European *wek(ʷ)speros (compare Latin vesper and Ancient Greek ἕσπερος (hésperos)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfʲasˠkəɾˠ/

Noun

feascar m (genitive singular feascair, nominative plural feascair)

1. evening

   Synonym: tráthnóna

2. vespers

   Synonym: easparta

Declension

Declension of feascar

First declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative feascar feascair Vocative a fheascair a fheascara Genitive feascair feascar Dative feascar feascair

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an feascar na feascair Genitive an fheascair na bhfeascar Dative leis an bhfeascar don fheascar leis na feascair

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
feascar	fheascar	bhfeascar
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• 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