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Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish fíacail.[1] Cognate with Scottish Gaelic fiacaill and Manx feeackle.
Pronunciation
Noun
fiacail f (genitive singular fiacaile, nominative plural fiacla)
- tooth
Ní mhilleann dea-ghlór fiacail; níor bhris focal maith fiacail riamh. (proverb)- A kind word is always welcome.
- (literally, “A good voice does not spoil a tooth; a good word never broke a tooth.”)
- edge, verge
Declension
- Alternative genitive plural: fiacal
Synonyms
Derived terms
Mutation
| Irish mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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| fiacail
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fhiacail
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bhfiacail
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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
- ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “fíacail”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 80, page 43
- ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 110
- ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 229, page 84
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