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Irish
Etymology
Literally, “of debts”
Pronunciation
Adverb
d’fhiacha
- incumbent
1906, E. C. Quiggin, A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 73:tα: ʃɛ jiəχfwi: ɔrəmTá sé d’fhiacha orm. (conventional orthography)- It is incumbent upon me.
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Further reading
- “d'fhiacha”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 fíach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “d'fhiacha”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 311
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “d'fhiacha”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- “d'fhiacha”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024