failpéireacht

Irish

Etymology

From failpéir (“sponger, toady”) +‎ -acht (abstract nominal suffix).

Noun

failpéireacht f (genitive singular failpéireachta)

1. (act of) sponging, toadying

Declension

Declension of failpéireacht (third declension, no plural)

bare forms case singular nominative failpéireacht vocative a fhailpéireacht genitive failpéireachta dative failpéireacht forms with the definite article case singular nominative an fhailpéireacht genitive na failpéireachta dative leis an bhfailpéireacht don fhailpéireacht

Mutation

Mutated forms of failpéireacht

radical	lenition	eclipsis
failpéireacht	fhailpéireacht	bhfailpéireacht

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “failpéireacht”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN