ficheall
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Ficheall
Irish
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old Irish fidchell, from Proto-Celtic *widukʷēslā (literally “wood intelligence”). Compare Welsh gwyddbwyll.
Pronunciation
Noun
ficheall f (genitive singular fichille)
- chess (two-player board game)
- chessboard
Declension
Declension of ficheall
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Bare forms (no plural form of this noun)
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Forms with the definite article
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Synonyms
- (chessboard): clár fichille
Derived terms
- fear fichille (“chess piece, chessman”)
- fiann fichille, foireann fichille (“set of chessmen”)
- ficheallaí, imreoir fichille (“chess player”)
- fichillín (“pawn”)
Mutation
| Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| ficheall | fhicheall | bhficheall |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
Further reading
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “ficheall”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “fidchell”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language