Fearchar
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Scottish Gaelic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]A proto-Celtic form *Ver-caro-s has been reconstructed. The first element may be related to modern Gaelic fìor 'true', or to modern Gaelic fear 'man' (cf. Fergus). The second element is the root of Gaelic caraid 'friend' and Latin carus 'dear'. Thus the name means either "most beloved one" or "beloved man".
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Fearchar (genitive/vocative Fhearchair)
- a male given name from Old Irish, equivalent to English Farquhar
Derived terms
[edit]- obair obair Fhearchair (“no rest for the wicked”)
Mutation
[edit]radical | lenition |
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Fearchar | Fhearchar |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
References
[edit]Alexander Macbain, Etymology of the principal Gaelic national names, personal names, surnames to which is added a disquisition on Ptolemy's Geography of Scotland, 1911, p. 14.
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- Scottish Gaelic terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Scottish Gaelic terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *keh₂-
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- Scottish Gaelic lemmas
- Scottish Gaelic proper nouns
- Scottish Gaelic given names
- Scottish Gaelic male given names
- Scottish Gaelic male given names from Old Irish