fásach

• (Munster, Connacht) IPA^(key): /ˈfˠɑːsˠəx/^[1][2]
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈfˠæːsˠa(x)/

From Middle Irish fásach (“uninhabited place, waste, wilderness”).^[3] By surface analysis, fás +‎ -ach.

fásach m (genitive singular fásaigh, nominative plural fásaigh)

1. waste, desert
2. uncultivated, uninhabited region
3. empty, deserted place

• ásach

fásach (genitive singular masculine fásaigh, genitive singular feminine fásaí, plural fásacha, comparative fásaí)

1. alternative form of fás (“waste, vacant”)

• → Yola: fasagh

From fás (“growth”) +‎ -ach

fásach m (genitive singular fásaigh, nominative plural fásaigh)

1. luxuriant growth

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “fásach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “3 fásach (‘abundance, fertility’)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “fásach”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “fásach”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025

From fás (“empty, deserted, uninhabited”) +‎ -ach

fásach n

1. uninhabited place, waste, wilderness

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• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 fásach (‘waste, wilderness’)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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• IPA^(key): /ˈɸaː.səx/, [ˈɸaːsax]

fásach n

1. (law) precedent (a decision which has passed into a maxim)
2. proverbial saying

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 fásach (‘legal precedent’)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language