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)
    fiarshúil i m’iníon.
    My daughter squints/has a squint.

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Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
fiarshúil fhiarshúil bhfiarshúil
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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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