fuascail
Irish
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom Middle Irish fúasclaid (“release, redeem”), a late form of fúaslaici, fúasailci formed by metathesis, from Old Irish do·fúasailci (“release, dissolve”), through loss of the first preverb. Cognate with Scottish Gaelic fuasgail.
Pronunciation
editVerb
editfuascail (present analytic fuasclaíonn, future analytic fuasclóidh, verbal noun fuascailt, past participle fuascailte)
- to deliver (set free), free, liberate, release, emancipate, extricate
- Synonym: saor
- to ransom (pay a price to set someone free), redeem (liberate by payment of ransom)
- to redeem (recover ownership of something by paying a sum, set free by force, convert into cash)
- to solve (find an answer or solution), answer (a question)
- to clear up (clarify, correct a misconception)
- (military) to relieve (bring military help to a besieged town; to lift the siege on)
Conjugation
editconjugation of fuascail (second conjugation)
* indirect relative
† archaic or dialect form
‡ dependent form
‡‡ dependent form used with particles that trigger eclipsis
- Alternative verbal noun: fuascladh
Mutation
editradical | lenition | eclipsis |
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fuascail | fhuascail | bhfuascail |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Further reading
edit- “fuascail”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “fúasclaid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “fuasclaim”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 338
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “fuascail”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
Categories:
- Irish terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Irish terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *leykʷ-
- Irish terms inherited from Middle Irish
- Irish terms derived from Middle Irish
- Irish terms inherited from Old Irish
- Irish terms derived from Old Irish
- Irish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Irish lemmas
- Irish verbs
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- Irish second-conjugation verbs