Irish

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Noun

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feasgar m (genitive singular feasgair, nominative plural feasgair)

  1. Obsolete spelling of feascar (evening).

Declension

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Mutation

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Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
feasgar fheasgar bhfeasgar
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Scottish Gaelic

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Etymology

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From Old Irish fescor[1] (compare Manx fastyr and Irish feascar), from Proto-Celtic *weskʷeros (compare Middle Welsh ucher),[2] from Proto-Indo-European *wek(ʷ)speros (compare Latin vesper and Ancient Greek ἕσπερος (hésperos)).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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feasgar m (genitive singular feasgair, plural feasgaran)

  1. evening, afternoon

Adverb

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feasgar

  1. in the afternoon
  2. pm, p.m.
    Synonym: f
    Antonyms: m, sa mhadainn

Mutation

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Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical Lenition
feasgar fheasgar
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), “1 fescor”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*weskʷero-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 416