fathach

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Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Irish aithech (“farmer, peasant, countryman, churl, rent-payer”). Cognate with Scottish Gaelic athach.

Pronunciation

Noun

fathach m (genitive singular fathaigh, nominative plural fathaigh)

  1. giant
  2. giant star
  3. bear (big man)
    fathach fir ― a bear of a man

Declension

Declension of fathach (first declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative fathach fathaigh
vocative a fhathaigh a fhathacha
genitive fathaigh fathach
dative fathach fathaigh
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an fathach na fathaigh
genitive an fhathaigh na bhfathach
dative leis an bhfathach
don fhathach 		leis na fathaigh

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of fathach
radical lenition eclipsis
fathach fhathach bhfathach

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

See also

References

  1. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 183, page 70

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