fothaispeántas

Irish

Etymology

From fo- (“secondary, subsidiary”) +‎ taispeántas (“demonstration, display, exhibition”).

Noun

fothaispeántas m (genitive singular fothaispeántais, nominative plural fothaispeántais)

1. side-show, midway

Declension

Declension of fothaispeántas (first declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative fothaispeántas fothaispeántais vocative a fhothaispeántais a fhothaispeántasa genitive fothaispeántais fothaispeántas dative fothaispeántas fothaispeántais forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an fothaispeántas na fothaispeántais genitive an fhothaispeántais na bhfothaispeántas dative leis an bhfothaispeántas don fhothaispeántas leis na fothaispeántais

Mutation

Mutated forms of fothaispeántas

radical	lenition	eclipsis
fothaispeántas	fhothaispeántas	bhfothaispeántas

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) “fothaispeántas”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “fothaispeántas”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “fothaispeántas”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024