fíoruisce

Irish

Alternative forms

  • fíor-uisce, fír-uisce (superseded)
  • fíoruisge, fíor-uisge, fír-uisge (obsolete)[1]

Etymology

From Middle Irish fíruisce (literally “true water”). By surface analysis, fíor- +‎ uisce. Cognate with Scottish Gaelic fìor-uisge.

Pronunciation

  • (Ulster) IPA(key): /ˈfʲiːɾʲˌɪʃcɪ/[2] (corresponding to the form fír-uisce)

Noun

fíoruisce m (genitive singular fíoruisce)

  1. fresh water
  2. springwater

Declension

Declension of fíoruisce (fourth declension, no plural)
bare forms
singular
nominative fíoruisce
vocative a fhíoruisce
genitive fíoruisce
dative fíoruisce
forms with the definite article
singular
nominative an fíoruisce
genitive an fhíoruisce
dative leis an bhfíoruisce
don fhíoruisce

Mutation

Mutated forms of fíoruisce
radical lenition eclipsis
fíoruisce fhíoruisce bhfíoruisce

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

References

  1. ^ “fíoruisce”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 101

Further reading

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