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Irish
Noun
feasgar m (genitive singular feasgair, nominative plural feasgair)
- Obsolete spelling of feascar (“evening”)
Declension
Mutation
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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| feasgar
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fheasgar
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bhfeasgar
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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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Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
From Old Irish fescor (compare Manx fastyr and Irish feascar), from Proto-Celtic *weskʷeros (compare Middle Welsh ucher), from Proto-Indo-European *wek(ʷ)speros (compare Latin vesper and Ancient Greek ἕσπερος (hésperos)).
Pronunciation
Noun
feasgar m (genitive singular feasgair, plural feasgaran)
- evening, afternoon
Adverb
feasgar
- in the afternoon
- pm, p.m.
- Synonym: f
- Antonyms: m, sa mhadainn
Mutation
| Scottish Gaelic mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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| feasgar |
fheasgar
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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
- ^ G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, 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