fathach
Appearance
Irish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Irish aithech (“farmer, peasant, countryman, churl, rent-payer”). Cognate with Scottish Gaelic athach.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]fathach m (genitive singular fathaigh, nominative plural fathaigh)
- giant
- giant star
- bear (big man)
- fathach fir ― a bear of a man
Declension
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Derived terms
[edit]- banfhathach (“giantess”)
- fathach dearg (“red giant”)
- fathach fir (“huge man, giant of a man”)
- fathach gorm (“blue giant”)
- fathach-tuatha (“plebeian”)
- finéal fathaigh (“giant fennel”)
- fo-fhathach (“subgiant”)
- obair fathaigh (“gigantic, herculean, task”)
- ollfhathach (“supergiant”)
Mutation
[edit]radical | lenition | eclipsis |
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fathach | fhathach | bhfathach |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 183, page 70
Further reading
[edit]- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “fathach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 aithech”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language