feasgar

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Irish[edit]

Noun[edit]

feasgar m (genitive singular feasgair, nominative plural feasgair)

  1. Obsolete spelling of feascar (evening)

Declension[edit]

Mutation[edit]

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
feasgar fheasgar bhfeasgar
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Scottish Gaelic[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old Irish fescor[1] (compare Manx fastyr and Irish feascar), from Proto-Celtic *weskʷeros (compare Middle Welsh ucher),[2] from Proto-Indo-European *wek(ʷ)speros (compare Latin vesper and Ancient Greek ἕσπερος (hésperos)).

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

feasgar m (genitive singular feasgair, plural feasgaran)

  1. evening, afternoon

Adverb[edit]

feasgar

  1. in the afternoon
  2. pm, p.m.
    Synonym: f
    Antonyms: m, sa mhadainn

Mutation[edit]

Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical Lenition
feasgar fheasgar
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References[edit]

  1. ^ G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 fescor”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*weskʷero-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 416