féach

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Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Irish féchaid, fégaid,[2] apparently from Old Irish do·éccai,[3] but with difficulties regarding the second consonant.

Pronunciation

Verb

féach (present analytic féachann, future analytic féachfaidh, verbal noun féachaint, past participle féachta)

  1. to look
  2. to try

Conjugation

Derived terms

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
féach fhéach bhféach
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

  1. ^ féach”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “fégaid, féc(h)aid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “do·éccai”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  4. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1938) Description d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ancienne Honoré Champion, page 189
  5. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 177
  6. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 166, page 63

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