féachaint

Irish

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Noun

féachaint f (genitive singular féachana, nominative plural féachaintí)

  1. verbal noun of féach
  2. look
  3. appearance
  4. aspect
  5. trial, test
  6. taste, small portion

Declension

Declension of féachaint (third declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative féachaint féachaintí
vocative a fhéachaint a fhéachaintí
genitive féachana féachaintí
dative féachaint féachaintí
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an fhéachaint na féachaintí
genitive na féachana na bhféachaintí
dative leis an bhféachaint
don fhéachaint 		leis na féachaintí

Derived terms

  • cianfhéachaint (“distant look, view”)
  • claonfhéachaint (“sidelong glance; squint”)
  • colgfhéachaint (“angry look”)
  • cúlfhéachaint (“backward look, glance”)
  • féachaint an (“to see if”)
  • súilfhéachaint (“glance”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of féachaint
radical lenition eclipsis
féachaint fhéachaint bhféachaint

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

References

  1. ^ “féachaint”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931), Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 31, page 18
  3. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899), Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), Zweiter Band: Wörterbuch [Second volume: Dictionary], Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 110
  4. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906), A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 214

Further reading

  • Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927), “féaċain(t)”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 431; reprinted with additions 1996, →ISBN
  • Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “féachaint”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
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