fraoch

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Irish

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Middle Irish fráech, from Old Irish froích, fróech,[4] from Proto-Celtic *wroikos (compare Welsh grug, Middle Breton groegan), from an unknown non-Indo-European source (compare Czech vřes, Latvian virsis, Ancient Greek ἐρείκη (ereíkē)).

Noun

fraoch m or f (genitive singular fraoigh or fraoighe)

  1. heather
    Synonym: fraoch mór
  2. heath, moor
    Synonym: móinteach
Declension
Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Middle Irish fráech m (rage, fury, fierceness).[5]

Noun

fraoch m (genitive singular fraoich)

  1. fierceness, fury
Declension
Derived terms

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
fraoch fhraoch bhfraoch
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

  1. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 52, page 28
  2. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 115
  3. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 270, page 95
  4. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 fráech”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  5. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 fráech”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Further reading

Scottish Gaelic

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Middle Irish fráech, from Old Irish froích, fróech,[1] from Proto-Celtic *wroikos, from a non-Indo-European source.

Noun

fraoch m (genitive singular fraoich, no plural)

  1. heath, heather, ling
  2. bristles
Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Middle Irish fráech m (rage, fury, fierceness).[2]

Noun

fraoch m (genitive singular fraoich, no plural)

  1. anger, fury
  2. girning expression of countenance

Mutation

Mutation of fraoch
radical lenition
fraoch fhraoch

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

References

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 fráech”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 fráech”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Further reading

  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “fraoch”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • MacLennan, Malcolm (1925) A Pronouncing and Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Edinburgh: J. Grant, →OCLC