feusagach

Scottish Gaelic

Alternative forms

• feòsagach, fèasogach

Etymology

From Old Irish fésócach (“bearded”) (compare Irish féasógach, Manx faasaagagh). By surface analysis, feusag (“beard”) +‎ -ach (adjectival suffix).

Adjective

feusagach (genitive singular masculine feusagaich, comparative feusagaiche)

1. bearded

   Synonym: ròmach

2. hairy
3. barbed

Mutation

Mutation of feusagach

radical	lenition
feusagach	fheusagach

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

Further reading

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “feusagach”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎^[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “fésócach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language