fleascach

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Irish

Etymology 1

From Middle Irish flescach (“lad under 17, whose weapon was a rod or wand rather than a spear”).[1] By surface analysis, fleasc (“wand”) +‎ -ach. Cognate with Scottish Gaelic fleasgach.

Alternative forms

Noun

fleascach m (genitive singular fleascaigh, nominative plural fleascaigh)

  1. stripling, youth
  2. rascal
Declension
Declension of fleascach (first declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative fleascach fleascaigh
vocative a fhleascaigh a fhleascacha
genitive fleascaigh fleascach
dative fleascach fleascaigh
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an fleascach na fleascaigh
genitive an fhleascaigh na bhfleascach
dative leis an bhfleascach
don fhleascach 		leis na fleascaigh

Etymology 2

From Middle Irish flescach (“abounding in shoot or branches; youthful”).[1] By surface analysis, fleasc (“wand”) +‎ -ach.

Alternative forms

Adjective

fleascach (genitive singular masculine fleascaigh, genitive singular feminine fleascaí, plural fleascacha, comparative fleascaí)

  1. youthful
  2. wreathed
Declension
Declension of fleascach
singular plural (m/f)
Positive masculine feminine (strong noun) (weak noun)
nominative fleascach fhleascach fleascacha;
fhleascacha2
vocative fhleascaigh fleascacha
genitive fleascaí fleascacha fleascach
dative fleascach;
fhleascach1 		fhleascach;
fhleascaigh (archaic) 		fleascacha;
fhleascacha2
Comparative níos fleascaí
Superlative is fleascaí

1 When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
2 When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

Mutation

Mutated forms of fleascach
radical lenition eclipsis
fleascach fhleascach bhfleascach

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

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “flescach or dil.ie/22309”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ “fleascach”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  3. ^ “fleascach”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy

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