fiacháil

Irish

Alternative forms

• féacháil
• feucháil (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from Scottish Gaelic feuchail (from Middle Irish fégaid, féchaid and thus related to féach (“to look”)), as shown by both the phonology (the change of Middle Irish é to /ia̯/ is typical of Scottish Gaelic but not of Ulster Irish) and the semantic shift from “look” to “test, taste”.

Pronunciation

• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈfʲia̯xælʲ/

Noun

fiacháil f (genitive singular fiachála, nominative plural fiachálacha) (Ulster)

1. a trial, attempt, test
2. a (small) taste
3. a contest

Declension

Declension of fiacháil (third declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative fiacháil fiachálacha vocative a fhiacháil a fhiachálacha genitive fiachála fiachálacha dative fiacháil fiachálacha forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an fhiacháil na fiachálacha genitive na fiachála na bhfiachálacha dative leis an bhfiacháil don fhiacháil leis na fiachálacha

Mutation

Mutated forms of fiacháil

radical	lenition	eclipsis
fiacháil	fhiacháil	bhfiacháil

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

Further reading

• “fiacháil”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “féaċáil”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 301
• “fiacháil”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “fiacháil”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “fiacháil”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN