fiacháil
Irish edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Scottish Gaelic feuchail (from Middle Irish fégaid, féchaid and thus related to féach (“to look”)), as shown by both the phonology (the change of Middle Irish é to /ia̯/ is typical of Scottish Gaelic but not of Ulster Irish) and the semantic shift from “look” to “test, taste”.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
fiacháil f (genitive singular fiachála, nominative plural fiachálacha) (Ulster)
Declension edit
Declension of fiacháil
Bare forms:
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Forms with the definite article:
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Mutation edit
Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
fiacháil | fhiacháil | bhfiacháil |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References edit
- ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 9
Further reading edit
- “fiacháil”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “féaċáil”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 301
- Entries containing “fiacháil” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “fiacháil”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “fiacháil”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN