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fuireachas

Irish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Dissimilated from earlier fuireachras, from Middle Irish furachrus.[2] By surface analysis, fuireachair +‎ -as. Cognate with Scottish Gaelic furachas.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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fuireachas m (genitive singular fuireachais)

  1. (act of) expecting, expectation, (act of) waiting for
  2. watchfulness, vigilance, cautiousness
  3. (military) stand-to

Declension

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Declension of fuireachas

First declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun)

Case Singular
Nominative fuireachas
Vocative a fhuireachais
Genitive fuireachais
Dative fuireachas

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular
Nominative an fuireachas
Genitive an fhuireachais
Dative leis an bhfuireachas

don fhuireachas

Derived terms

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Mutation

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Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
fuireachas fhuireachas bhfuireachas
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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  1. ^ “fuireachas”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “fuirechras, furachras”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 24

Further reading

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