faichill
Appearance
Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle Irish foichell, from Old Irish fochell.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]faichill f (genitive singular faichille)
- verbal noun of faichill
- care, caution
- wariness, guardedness
Declension
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Verb
[edit]faichill (present analytic faichilleann, future analytic faichillfidh, verbal noun faichill, past participle faichillte)
- (transitive, intransitive, reflexive) be careful, wary, on guard [with ar ‘of, against’]
- Faichill thú féin air.
- Be wary of him.
Conjugation
[edit]conjugation of faichill (first conjugation – A)
* indirect relative
† archaic or dialect form
‡ dependent form
‡‡ dependent form used with particles that trigger eclipsis
Mutation
[edit]radical | lenition | eclipsis |
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faichill | fhaichill | bhfaichill |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
References
[edit]- ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “fochell”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 343, page 118
Further reading
[edit]- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “faichill”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
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