fiacháil

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Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Scottish Gaelic feuchail (from Middle Irish fégaid, féchaid and thus related to féach (“to look”)), as shown by both the phonology (the change of Middle Irish é to /ia̯/ is typical of Scottish Gaelic but not of Ulster Irish) and the semantic shift from “look” to “test, taste”.

Pronunciation

Noun

fiacháil f (genitive singular fiachála, nominative plural fiachálacha) (Ulster)

  1. a trial, attempt, test
  2. a (small) taste
  3. a contest

Declension

Declension of fiacháil (third declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative fiacháil fiachálacha
vocative a fhiacháil a fhiachálacha
genitive fiachála fiachálacha
dative fiacháil fiachálacha
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an fhiacháil na fiachálacha
genitive na fiachála na bhfiachálacha
dative leis an bhfiacháil
don fhiacháil 		leis na fiachálacha

Mutation

Mutated forms of fiacháil
radical lenition eclipsis
fiacháil fhiacháil bhfiacháil

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

References

  1. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 9

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