feicseanach

Irish

Alternative forms

  • faicseanach, faicsionach, feicsionach, feicsionnach (obsolete)[1][2]
  • faiceálach, feiceálach, feisceanach[3]

Etymology

From feicsin(t), a no longer standard form of feiceáil (“visibility”), + -ach.

Adjective

feicseanach (genitive singular masculine feicseanaigh, genitive singular feminine feicseanaí, plural feicseanacha, comparative feicseanaí)

  1. (dated) visible

Declension

Declension of feicseanach
Positive singular plural
masculine feminine strong noun weak noun
nominative feicseanach fheicseanach feicseanacha;
fheicseanacha2
vocative fheicseanaigh feicseanacha
genitive feicseanaí feicseanacha feicseanach
dative feicseanach;
fheicseanach1 		fheicseanach;
fheicseanaigh (archaic) 		feicseanacha;
fheicseanacha2
Comparative níos feicseanaí
Superlative is feicseanaí

1 When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
2 When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

Synonyms

Derived terms

  • feicseanacht

Mutation

Mutated forms of feicseanach
radical lenition eclipsis
feicseanach fheicseanach bhfeicseanach

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

References

  1. ^ “feicseanach”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “faicsenach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927), “feicseanaċ”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 441; reprinted with additions 1996, →ISBN

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