faoiseamh

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Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish fáes(s)am (“supporting, protection, safeguard”), from Old Irish fóesam, verbal noun of Old Irish fo·sisedar (“to stand under, confess”).[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

faoiseamh m (genitive singular faoisimh)

  1. relief, alleviation, ease

Declension

Declension of faoiseamh (first declension, no plural)
bare forms
case singular
nominative faoiseamh
vocative a fhaoisimh
genitive faoisimh
dative faoiseamh
forms with the definite article
case singular
nominative an faoiseamh
genitive an fhaoisimh
dative leis an bhfaoiseamh
don fhaoiseamh

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of faoiseamh
radical lenition eclipsis
faoiseamh fhaoiseamh bhfaoiseamh

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “fáes(s)am”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 52, page 28
  3. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 124, page 47

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