farsaing

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Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish fairsiung.^[1] Cognate with Irish fairsing.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈfaɾs̪ɪŋʲkʲ/

Adjective

farsaing

wide, broad

Synonyms

leathann

Derived terms

ceàrn farsaing (“obtuse angle”)
fad is farsaing (“far and wide”)
farsaingeachd (“width; area”)
san fharsaingeachd (“in general; extensively”)

Mutation

Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical	Lenition
farsaing	fharsaing
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “farsaing”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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