fichead

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IrishEdit

PronunciationEdit

• (Munster) IPA^(key): [ˈfʲɪhəd̪ˠ]
• (Connacht, Ulster) IPA^(key): [ˈfʲɪçəd̪ˠ]

NounEdit

fichead m

1. genitive singular of fiche

MutationEdit

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
fichead	fhichead	bhfichead
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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Scottish GaelicEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Old Irish fichet (compare Manx feed), genitive singular of fiche (“twenty”), from Proto-Celtic *wikantī (compare Welsh ugain), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁wih₁ḱm̥t (compare Latin vīgintī), from *dwi(h₁)dḱm̥ti (“two-ten”).

NumeralEdit

fichead

1. (cardinal) twenty

Usage notesEdit

• The following noun is in the singular:

  fichead leabhar ― twenty books

• In the older, vigesimal system of counting in Scottish Gaelic, the numerals 40, 60, 80, 120, 140, 160 and 180 are denoted as multiples of 20, hence:

  dà fhichead leabhar ― forty books

  (literally "two [times] twenty books")

  seachd fichead leabhar ― 140 books

  (literally "seven [times] twenty books")

Derived termsEdit

• air fhichead (“twenty-...”)
• ficheadamh (“twentieth”)

NounEdit

fichead m

1. twenty, score

ReferencesEdit

• Faclair Gàidhlig Dwelly Air Loidhne, Dwelly, Edward (1911), Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic-English Dictionary (10th ed.), Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• A Pronouncing and Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language (John Grant, Edinburgh, 1925, Complied by Malcolm MacLennan)
• “fiche” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.