faoiseamh

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish fáes(s)am (“supporting, protection, safeguard”), from Old Irish fóesam, verbal noun of Old Irish fo·sisedar (“to stand under, confess”).[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

faoiseamh m (genitive singular faoisimh)

  1. relief, alleviation, ease

Declension

Declension of faoiseamh (first declension, no plural)
bare forms
singular
nominative faoiseamh
vocative a fhaoisimh
genitive faoisimh
dative faoiseamh
forms with the definite article
singular
nominative an faoiseamh
genitive an fhaoisimh
dative leis an bhfaoiseamh
don fhaoiseamh

Derived terms

  • faoiseamh cánach

Mutation

Mutated forms of faoiseamh
radical lenition eclipsis
faoiseamh fhaoiseamh bhfaoiseamh

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

References

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “fáes(s)am”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 52, page 28
  3. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 124, page 47

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