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Irish
Alternative forms
Noun
cuaifeach m (genitive singular cuaifigh, nominative plural cuaifigh)
- blast (of wind)..
- whirlwind, eddying wind
- flurry (sudden and brief blast or gust), squall (sudden storm)
- swipe (strong blow given with a sweeping motion), roundhouse (punch or kick delivered with an exaggerated sweeping movement)
Derived terms
Mutation
| Irish mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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| cuaifeach
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chuaifeach
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gcuaifeach
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| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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Further reading
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “coifeaċ”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 159
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “cuaifeach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 58