fidléir

Irish

Alternative forms

• fidiléir
• fidileoir

Etymology

From fidil (“fiddle”) +‎ -éir (agent noun suffix).

Noun

fidléir m (genitive singular fidléara, nominative plural fidléirí)

1. fiddler

Declension

Declension of fidléir (third declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative fidléir fidléirí vocative a fhidléir a fhidléirí genitive fidléara fidléirí dative fidléir fidléirí forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an fidléir na fidléirí genitive an fhidléara na bhfidléirí dative leis an bhfidléir don fhidléir leis na fidléirí

Derived terms

• fidléireacht (“fiddle-playing; (act of) fiddling, trifling”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of fidléir

radical	lenition	eclipsis
fidléir	fhidléir	bhfidléir

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

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “fidléir”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• “fiddler”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2024