filleadh

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish filliud, verbal noun of fillid.

Pronunciation

• (noun): (Galway) IPA^(key): /ˈfʲɪl̠ʲə/

Noun

filleadh m (genitive singular as substantive fillidh, genitive as verbal noun fillte, nominative plural fillteacha)

1. verbal noun of fill
2. folding; bend, fold
   1. (geography) fold, folding
   2. (biology, geology, medicine) plication
3. return
   1. (biology) reversion (to type)
   2. recoil (of action)
   3. (electricity) lapping
   4. (medicine, of symptoms) recurrence

Declension

As verbal noun

Declension of filleadh (third declension, no plural)

bare forms case singular nominative filleadh vocative a fhilleadh genitive fillte dative filleadh forms with the definite article case singular nominative an filleadh genitive an fhillte dative leis an bhfilleadh don fhilleadh

As substantive

Declension of filleadh (first declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative filleadh fillteacha vocative a fhillidh a fhillteacha genitive fillidh fillteacha dative filleadh fillteacha forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an filleadh na fillteacha genitive an fhillidh na bhfillteacha dative leis an bhfilleadh don fhilleadh leis na fillteacha

Verb

filleadh

1. inflection of fill:
   1. past indicative autonomous
   2. past subjunctive analytic
   3. third-person singular imperative

Mutation

Mutated forms of filleadh

radical	lenition	eclipsis
filleadh	fhilleadh	bhfilleadh

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) “filleadh”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN