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Irish
Etymology
From Middle Irish fúatach.
Pronunciation
Noun
fuadach m (genitive singular fuadaigh, nominative plural fuadaigh)
- verbal noun of fuadaigh
- abduction (wrongful carrying off of a human being), kidnapping
- snatching away, snatching up, plundering
- rape
- Synonym: éigniú
- hijacking
- (draughts) huff (removing an opponent's piece as a forfeit for deliberately not taking a piece)
Declension
Derived terms
Mutation
Irish mutation
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Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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fuadach
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fhuadach
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bhfuadach
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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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Further reading
- “fuadach”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “fúatach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “fuadaċ”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 336
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “fuadach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 15