fuasgail

Irish

Verb

fuasgail

1. Obsolete spelling of fuascail.

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
fuasgail	fhuasgail	bhfuasgail
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From 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 Irish fuascail.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfuəs̪kal/

Verb

fuasgail (past dh'fhuasgail, future fuasgailidh, verbal noun fuasgladh, past participle fuasgailte)

1. release, free, liberate
2. loosen, untie, disentangle
3. solve, resolve

Mutation

Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical	Lenition
fuasgail	fhuasgail
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “fúasclaid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language