fiacaill

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Scottish Gaelic

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Irish fíacail. Cognate with Irish fiacail and Manx feeackle.

Pronunciation

Noun

fiacaill f (genitive singular fiacla, plural fiaclan)

  1. tooth
    Synonym: deud
  2. cog (on a gear)
  3. pin (of an electric plug)

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutation of fiacaill
radical lenition
fiacaill fhiacaill

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

Further reading

  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “fiacaill”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “fíacail”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language