Irish
Etymology
From Middle Irish fúatach, possibly ultimately related to Proto-Celtic *tekʷeti (“to flee”).[1][2]
Pronunciation
Noun
fuadach m (genitive singular fuadaigh, nominative plural fuadaigh)
- verbal noun of fuadaigh
- abduction (wrongful carrying off of a human being), kidnapping
- snatching away, snatching up, plundering
- rape
- Synonym: éigniú
- hijacking
- (draughts) huff (removing an opponent's piece as a forfeit for deliberately not taking a piece)
Declension
Declension of fuadach (first declension)
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Derived terms
- fuadach croí (“heavy beating of the heart, palpitation”)
Mutation
Mutated forms of fuadach
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lenition
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eclipsis
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fhuadach
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bhfuadach
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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
- ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “fúatach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- ^ MacBain, Alexander; Mackay, Eneas (1911), “fuadaich”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language[1], Stirling, →ISBN
- ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931), Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 25, page 15
Further reading
- “fuadach”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927), “fuadaċ”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 491; reprinted with additions 1996, →ISBN
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “fuadach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN