Irish
Pronunciation
Noun
fearsaid f (genitive singular fearsaide, nominative plural fearsaidí)
- spindle (rod in spinning and winding thread; rod which turns, or on which something turns round; rotary axis of a machine tool or power tool)
- shaft (in an engine)
- axle, axletree
- peg of a top
- sandbank at low water
- ditty, piece of poetry or verse
Declension
Declension of fearsaid (second declension)
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Alternative genitive singular: feirste
Derived terms
- Béal Feirste (“Belfast”)
- crann fearsaide (“axletree”)
- fearsaid thiomána (“driving axle”)
- lorgfhearsaid (“club”)
- muinchille fearsaide (“axle sleeve”)
Mutation
Mutated forms of fearsaid
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lenition
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eclipsis
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fhearsaid
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bhfearsaid
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Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
References
- ^ “fearsaid”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- ^ Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “feartas”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- ^ Finck, F. N. (1899), Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), Zweiter Band: Wörterbuch [Second volume: Dictionary], Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 272
Further reading
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 fertas ‘axle shaft’”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 fertas ‘raised bank of earth’”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927), “fearsad”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 438; reprinted with additions 1996, →ISBN
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “fearsaid”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN