feighil

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Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish figell, from Latin vigil.[1] The verb is from Middle Irish figlid, from the noun.[2] Doublet of bigil.

Pronunciation

Noun

feighil f (genitive singular feighle)

  1. vigilance, watchfulness; care, attention
  2. verbal noun of feighil

Declension

Declension of feighil (second declension, no plural)
bare forms
case singular
nominative feighil
vocative a fheighil
genitive feighle
dative feighil
forms with the definite article
case singular
nominative an fheighil
genitive na feighle
dative leis an bhfeighil
don fheighil

Derived terms

Verb

feighil (present analytic feighlíonn, future analytic feighleoidh, verbal noun feighil, past participle feighlithe)

  1. watch, tend

Conjugation

Derived terms

  • feighlí (watcher, tender, overseer)

Mutation

Mutated forms of feighil
radical lenition eclipsis
feighil fheighil bhfeighil

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

References

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

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