fuascail
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Irish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle Irish fúasclaid (“release, redeem”), a late form of fúaslaici, fúasailci formed by metathesis, from Old Irish do·fúasailci (“release, dissolve”), through loss of the first preverb. Cognate with Scottish Gaelic fuasgail.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]fuascail (present analytic fuasclaíonn, future analytic fuasclóidh, verbal noun fuascailt, past participle fuascailte)
- to deliver (set free), free, liberate, release, emancipate, extricate
- Synonym: saor
- to ransom (pay a price to set someone free), redeem (liberate by payment of ransom)
- to redeem (recover ownership of something by paying a sum, set free by force, convert into cash)
- to solve (find an answer or solution), answer (a question)
- to clear up (clarify, correct a misconception)
- (military) to relieve (bring military help to a besieged town; to lift the siege on)
Conjugation
[edit]conjugation of fuascail (second conjugation)
* indirect relative
† archaic or dialect form
‡ dependent form
‡‡ dependent form used with particles that trigger eclipsis
- Alternative verbal noun: fuascladh
Mutation
[edit]radical | lenition | eclipsis |
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fuascail | fhuascail | bhfuascail |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Further reading
[edit]- “fuascail”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “fúasclaid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “fuasclaim”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 338
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “fuascail”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
Categories:
- Irish terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Irish terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *leykʷ-
- Irish terms inherited from Middle Irish
- Irish terms derived from Middle Irish
- Irish terms inherited from Old Irish
- Irish terms derived from Old Irish
- Irish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Irish lemmas
- Irish verbs
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- Irish second-conjugation verbs