foghar

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Irish

Etymology 1

From Old Irish fogur (sound).

Pronunciation

Noun

foghar m (genitive singular foghair, nominative plural foghair)

  1. sound
  2. (phonetics) phone
Declension
Declension of foghar (first declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative foghar foghair
vocative a fhoghair a fhoghara
genitive foghair foghar
dative foghar foghair
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an foghar na foghair
genitive an fhoghair na bhfoghar
dative leis an bhfoghar
don fhoghar
leis na foghair
Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Middle Irish fogur, from Anglo-Norman favour, from Latin favor (good will; kindness; partiality), from faveō (to be kind to).

Pronunciation

Noun

foghar m (genitive singular foghair, nominative plural foghair)

  1. Ulster form of fabhar (favor)
Declension
Declension of foghar (first declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative foghar foghair
vocative a fhoghair a fhoghara
genitive foghair foghar
dative foghar foghair
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an foghar na foghair
genitive an fhoghair na bhfoghar
dative leis an bhfoghar
don fhoghar
leis na foghair

Mutation

Mutated forms of foghar
radical lenition eclipsis
foghar fhoghar bhfoghar

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

Further reading

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology 1

From Middle Irish fogamur (harvest), from Old Irish fogamar, fogomur (autumn). Compare Irish fómhar, Manx fouyr.

Pronunciation

Noun

foghar m (genitive singular foghair, plural fogharan)

  1. harvest
  2. autumn
    as t-fhogharin autumn
    Tha na duilleagan a' tuiteam leis an fhoghar.The leaves are falling with autumn.

See also

Etymology 2

From Old Irish fogur (sound).

Pronunciation

Noun

foghar m (genitive singular foghair, plural fogharan)

  1. (phonetics) phone
Derived terms

Mutation

Mutation of foghar
radical lenition
foghar fhoghar

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

References

  1. ^ Oftedal, M. (1956) A linguistic survey of the Gaelic dialects of Scotland, Vol. III: The Gaelic of Leurbost, Isle of Lewis, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap
  2. ^ Borgstrøm, Carl Hj. (1940) A linguistic survey of the Gaelic dialects of Scotland, Vol. I: The dialects of the Outer Hebrides, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap
  3. ^ Borgstrøm, Carl Hj. (1937) The dialect of Barra in the Outer Hebrides, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap