fidléir

Irish

Alternative forms

• fidiléir
• fidileoir

Etymology

From fidil (“fiddle”) +‎ -éir (agent noun suffix).

Noun

fidléir m (genitive singular fidléara, nominative plural fidléirí)

1. fiddler

Declension

Declension of fidléir

Third declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative fidléir fidléirí Vocative a fhidléir a fhidléirí Genitive fidléara fidléirí Dative fidléir fidléirí

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an fidléir na fidléirí Genitive an fhidléara na bhfidléirí Dative leis an bhfidléir don fhidléir leis na fidléirí

Derived terms

• fidléireacht (“fiddle-playing; (act of) fiddling, trifling”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
fidléir	fhidléir	bhfidléir
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “fidléir”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• “fiddler”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2024