fiacháil
Irish
Alternative forms
- féacháil
- feucháil (obsolete)
Etymology
Borrowed from Scottish Gaelic feuchail (from Middle Irish fégaid, féchaid and thus related to féach (“to look”)), as shown by both the phonology (the change of Middle Irish é to /ia̯/ is typical of Scottish Gaelic but not of Ulster Irish) and the semantic shift from “look” to “test, taste”.
Noun
fiacháil f (genitive singular fiachála, nominative plural fiachálacha) (Ulster)
Declension
Declension of fiacháil
Third declension
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Bare forms:
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Forms with the definite article:
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Mutation
| Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| fiacháil | fhiacháil | bhfiacháil |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
Further reading
- “fiacháil” at the Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926 of the Royal Irish Academy.
- “féaċáil” in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, Irish Texts Society, 1st ed., 1904, by Patrick S. Dinneen, page 301.
- Entries containing “fiacháil” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
- "fiacháil" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
- "fiacháil" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
References
- Quiggin, E. C. (1906), A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 9.
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