fuadach

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish fúatach.

Pronunciation

• (Munster, Connacht) IPA^(key): /ˈfˠuəd̪ˠəx/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈfˠuəd̪ˠa(x)/

Noun

fuadach m (genitive singular fuadaigh, nominative plural fuadaigh)

1. verbal noun of fuadaigh
2. abduction (wrongful carrying off of a human being), kidnapping
3. snatching away, snatching up, plundering
4. rape

   Synonym: éigniú

5. hijacking
6. (draughts) huff (removing an opponent's piece as a forfeit for deliberately not taking a piece)

Declension

Declension of fuadach (first declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative fuadach fuadaigh vocative a fhuadaigh a fhuadacha genitive fuadaigh fuadach dative fuadach fuadaigh forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an fuadach na fuadaigh genitive an fhuadaigh na bhfuadach dative leis an bhfuadach don fhuadach leis na fuadaigh

Derived terms

• fuadach croí (“heavy beating of the heart, palpitation”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of fuadach

radical	lenition	eclipsis
fuadach	fhuadach	bhfuadach

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

Further reading

• “fuadach”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “fúatach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “fuadaċ”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 336
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “fuadach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 15