fichiú

Irish

Alternative forms

• ficheamhadh

Etymology

From Old Irish fichetmad (compare Scottish Gaelic ficheadamh). By surface analysis, fiche +‎ -ú.

Adjective

fichiú

1. twentieth

Derived terms

• an fichiú haois, an fichiú céad (“the twentieth century”)

Related terms

• fiche (“twenty”)

Noun

fichiú m (genitive singular fichiú, nominative plural fichithe)

1. twentieth part

Declension

Declension of fichiú (fourth declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative fichiú fichithe vocative a fhichiú a fhichithe genitive fichiú fichithe dative fichiú fichithe forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an fichiú na fichithe genitive an fhichiú na bhfichithe dative leis an bhfichiú don fhichiú leis na fichithe

Mutation

Mutated forms of fichiú

radical	lenition	eclipsis
fichiú	fhichiú	bhfichiú

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) “fichiú”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “fichetmad”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language