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feighil

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Irish

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Etymology

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From Middle Irish figell, from Latin vigil.[1] The verb is from Middle Irish figlid, from the noun.[2] Doublet of bigil.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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feighil f (genitive singular feighle)

  1. vigilance, watchfulness; care, attention
  2. verbal noun of feighil

Declension

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Declension of feighil (second declension, no plural)
bare forms
case singular
nominative feighil
vocative a fheighil
genitive feighle
dative feighil
forms with the definite article
case singular
nominative an fheighil
genitive na feighle
dative leis an bhfeighil
don fheighil

Derived terms

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Verb

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feighil (present analytic feighlíonn, future analytic feighleoidh, verbal noun feighil, past participle feighlithe)

  1. watch, tend

Conjugation

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Derived terms

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  • feighlí (watcher, tender, overseer)

Mutation

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Mutated forms of feighil
radical lenition eclipsis
feighil fheighil bhfeighil

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

References

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  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “figel(l)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “figlid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Further reading

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