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Irish
Etymology
From failp (“whip, strike (with cane, etc.)”) + -éir (agent suffix).
Noun
failpéir m (genitive singular failpéara, nominative plural failpéirí)
- sponger, toady
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Mutation
| Irish mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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| failpéir
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fhailpéir
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bhfailpéir
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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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