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Irish
Etymology
From fear (“man”) + siúl (“walking”).
Pronunciation
Noun
fear siúil m (genitive singular fir shiúil, nominative plural fir shiúil)
- hobo, itinerant, tramp
Declension
See also
Further reading
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “fear”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 304
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “fear”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 39