fuiseog

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Irish

Fuiseog

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Irish uiseóc; compare Manx ushag and Scottish Gaelic uiseag.[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

fuiseog f (genitive singular fuiseoige, nominative plural fuiseoga)

  1. lark, skylark

Declension

Declension of fuiseog (second declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative fuiseog fuiseoga
vocative a fhuiseog a fhuiseoga
genitive fuiseoige fuiseog
dative fuiseog
fuiseoig (archaic, dialectal) 		fuiseoga
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an fhuiseog na fuiseoga
genitive na fuiseoige na bhfuiseog
dative leis an bhfuiseog
leis an bhfuiseoig (archaic, dialectal)
don fhuiseog
don fhuiseoig (archaic, dialectal) 		leis na fuiseoga

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of fuiseog
radical lenition eclipsis
fuiseog fhuiseog bhfuiseog

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

References

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “uiseóg, fuiseóg”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 44

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