féasógach

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Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish fésócach (compare Manx faasaagagh, Scottish Gaelic feusagach). By surface analysis, féasóg (“beard”) +‎ -ach.

Adjective

féasógach (genitive singular masculine féasógaigh, genitive singular feminine féasógaí, plural féasógacha, comparative féasógaí)

  1. bearded, scrubby, whiskered

Declension

Declension of féasógach
Singular Plural (m/f)
Positive Masculine Feminine (strong noun) (weak noun)
Nominative féasógach fhéasógach féasógacha;
fhéasógacha²
Vocative fhéasógaigh féasógacha
Genitive féasógaí féasógacha féasógach
Dative féasógach;
fhéasógach¹ 		fhéasógach;
fhéasógaigh (archaic) 		féasógacha;
fhéasógacha²
Comparative níos féasógaí
Superlative is féasógaí

¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
féasógach fhéasógach bhféasógach
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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