fiagaí

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Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Irish fíadaige.[2] By surface analysis, fia (“deer”) +‎ -aí (agentive suffix). Cognate with Scottish Gaelic fiadhaiche.

Noun

fiagaí m (genitive singular fiagaí, nominative plural fiagaithe)

  1. hunter

Declension

Declension of fiagaí (fourth declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative fiagaí fiagaithe
vocative a fhiagaí a fhiagaithe
genitive fiagaí fiagaithe
dative fiagaí fiagaithe
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an fiagaí na fiagaithe
genitive an fhiagaí na bhfiagaithe
dative leis an bhfiagaí
don fhiagaí 		leis na fiagaithe

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Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of fiagaí
radical lenition eclipsis
fiagaí fhiagaí bhfiagaí

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

References

  1. ^ “fiagaí”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “fíadaige”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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