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Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish fescor[2] (compare Manx fastyr and Scottish Gaelic feasgar), from Proto-Celtic *weskʷeros (compare Middle Welsh ucher),[3] from Proto-Indo-European *wek(ʷ)speros (compare Latin vesper and Ancient Greek ἕσπερος (hésperos)).
Pronunciation
Noun
feascar m (genitive singular feascair, nominative plural feascair)
- evening
- Synonym: tráthnóna
- vespers
- Synonym: easparta
Declension
Mutation
| Irish mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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| feascar
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fheascar
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bhfeascar
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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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References
- ^ “feascar”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 fescor”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*weskʷero-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 416
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