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Irish
Alternative forms
Etymology
From súil (“eye”) + féachaint (“look”).
Noun
súilfhéachaint f (genitive singular súilfhéachana, nominative plural súilfhéachaintí)
- glance (brief or cursory look)
Thug mé súilfhéachaint ar féinín mo chailín.- I glanced at my girlfriend’s selfie.
Declension
Declension of súilfhéachaint
Mutation
| Irish mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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| súilfhéachaint
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shúilfhéachaint
after an, tsúilfhéachaint
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not applicable
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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
- ^ “súilfhéachaint”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
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