fiarshúil

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Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From fiar (“slant”) +‎ súil (“eye”).

Pronunciation

Noun

fiarshúil f (genitive singular fiarshúile, nominative plural fiarshúile)

  1. squint (look of eyes which are turned in different directions, like in strabismus)
    Tá fiarshúil i m’iníon.
    My daughter squints/has a squint.

Declension

Declension of fiarshúil (second declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative fiarshúil fiarshúile
vocative a fhiarshúil a fhiarshúile
genitive fiarshúile fiarshúl
dative fiarshúil fiarshúile
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an fhiarshúil na fiarshúile
genitive na fiarshúile na bhfiarshúl
dative leis an bhfiarshúil
don fhiarshúil 		leis na fiarshúile

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of fiarshúil
radical lenition eclipsis
fiarshúil fhiarshúil bhfiarshúil

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

References

  1. ^ “fiarshúil”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 102

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