foighdeach

Irish

Alternative forms

• foighideach

Etymology

From foighid, foighide +‎ -ach.

Pronunciation

• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈfˠəidʲa(x)/

Adjective

foighdeach (genitive singular masculine foighdigh, genitive singular feminine foighdí, plural foighdeacha, comparative foighdí)

1. Alternative form of foighneach (“patient”)

Declension

Declension of foighdeach

	Singular		Plural (m/f)
Positive	Masculine	Feminine	(strong noun)	(weak noun)
Nominative	foighdeach	fhoighdeach	foighdeacha; fhoighdeacha²
Vocative	fhoighdigh		foighdeacha
Genitive		foighdí	foighdeacha	foighdeach
Dative	foighdeach; fhoighdeach¹	fhoighdeach; fhoighdigh (archaic)	foighdeacha; fhoighdeacha²
Comparative	níos foighdí
Superlative	is foighdí

¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
foighdeach	fhoighdeach	bhfoighdeach
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “foiġdeaċ”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 324
• Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 64