fuasgail

Irish

Verb

fuasgail

1. Obsolete spelling of fuascail.

Mutation

Mutated forms of fuasgail

radical	lenition	eclipsis
fuasgail	fhuasgail	bhfuasgail

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

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

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 Irish fuascail.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfuəs̪kal/

Verb

fuasgail (past dh'fhuasgail, future fuasgailidh, verbal noun fuasgladh, past participle fuasgailte)

1. release, free, liberate
2. loosen, untie, disentangle
3. solve, resolve

Mutation

Mutation of fuasgail

radical	lenition
fuasgail	fhuasgail

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

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “fúasclaid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language