faichill
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Irish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle Irish foichell, from Old Irish fochell.
Noun[edit]
faichill f (genitive singular faichille)
- verbal noun of faichill
- care, caution
- wariness, guardedness
Declension[edit]
Declension of faichill
Bare forms (no plural form of this noun)
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Forms with the definite article
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Verb[edit]
faichill (present analytic faichilleann, future analytic faichillfidh, verbal noun faichill, past participle faichillte)
- (transitive, intransitive) be careful, wary, on guard (of/against ar}
- Faichill thú féin air ― Be wary of him.
Conjugation[edit]
conjugation of faichill (first conjugation – A)
* indirect relative
† archaic or dialect form
‡ dependent form
‡‡ dependent form used with particles that trigger eclipsis
Mutation[edit]
Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
faichill | fhaichill | bhfaichill |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading[edit]
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “faichill”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “fochell”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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