freagairt

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish frecairt (“the act of answering”), from frecra, frecrae, verbal noun of fris·gair (“answers, replies”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈfʲrʲaɡəɾˠtʲ/

Noun

freagairt f (genitive singular freagartha)

  1. verbal noun of freagair
  2. answering, answer; correspondence; responsibility; reaction, response
  3. (fishing) rise, bite
  4. attention, observance
  5. (geology) outcrop

Declension
Declension of freagairt

Irregular

Bare forms (no plural of this noun)

Case Singular
Nominative freagairt
Vocative a fhreagairt
Genitive freagartha
Dative freagairt

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular
Nominative an fhreagairt
Genitive na freagartha
Dative leis an bhfreagairt

don fhreagairt

Synonyms
  • (attention, observance): freagar

Mutation
Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
freagairt fhreagairt bhfreagairt
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish frecairt (“the act of answering”), from frecra, frecrae, verbal noun of fris·gair (“answers, replies”).

Noun

freagairt f (genitive singular freagairt or freagairte, plural freagairtean)

  1. verbal noun of freagair
  2. answer
  3. reply

Mutation
Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical Lenition
freagairtfhreagairt
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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