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Irish
Etymology
From Middle Irish foréicen.[2] By surface analysis, for- + éigean.
Pronunciation
Noun
foréigean m (genitive singular foréigin) or
foréigean f (genitive singular foréigne)
- violence
Declension
As a masculine noun:
As a feminine noun:
Derived terms
Mutation
| Irish mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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| foréigean
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fhoréigean
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bhforéigean
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| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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References
- ^ “foréigean”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “foréicen”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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