feusagach

Scottish Gaelic

Alternative forms

• feòsagach, fèasogach

Etymology

From Old Irish fésócach (“bearded”) (compare Irish féasógach, Manx faasaagagh). By surface analysis, feusag (“beard”) +‎ -ach (adjectival suffix).

Adjective

feusagach (genitive singular masculine feusagaich, comparative feusagaiche)

1. bearded

   Synonym: ròmach

2. hairy
3. barbed

Mutation

Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical	Lenition
feusagach	fheusagach
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “feusagach”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎^[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “fésócach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language