farraige

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Irish fairrge.[2]

Pronunciation

Noun

farraige f (genitive singular farraige, nominative plural farraigí)

  1. sea
    Bainfidh an fharraige a cuid féin amach; beidh a cuid féin ag an bhfarraige. (proverb)
    The sea will have its own, its share of tragedies.
  2. billow, swell

Declension

Declension of farraige (fourth declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative farraige farraigí
vocative a fharraige a fharraigí
genitive farraige farraigí
dative farraige farraigí
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an fharraige na farraigí
genitive na farraige na bhfarraigí
dative leis an bhfarraige
don fharraige 		leis na farraigí

Derived terms

  • ar an bhfarraige (“at sea”)
  • ar farraige (“at sea”)
  • farraige chósta (“coastal waters”)
  • farraige mhór (“open sea, ocean”)
  • farraigeach (“seaman, seafarer”)
  • farraigeoireacht (“(act of) seafaring”)
  • farraigí an domhain (“the seas of the world, the seven seas”)
  • farraigí arda
  • fear farraige (“seaman, seafarer”)
  • fear i bhfarraige! (“man overboard!”)
  • focal farraige (“nautical term”)
  • fórsaí farraige (“naval forces”)
  • gafa i bhfarraige (“for one's number to be up”)
  • iasc farraige (“sea-fish”)
  • leibhéal farraige (“sea-level”)
  • lucht farraige (“seafarers”)
  • na farraigí arda (“the high seas”)
  • tinneas farraige (“sea-sickness”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of farraige
radical lenition eclipsis
farraige fharraige bhfarraige

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

References

  1. ^ “farraige”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “fairrge, fairge”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Ó Cuív, Brian (1968) The Irish of West Muskerry, Co. Cork: A Phonetic Study, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, section 61, page 15; reprinted 1988
  4. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), Zweiter Band: Wörterbuch [Second volume: Dictionary], Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 118
  5. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 433, page 140
  6. ^ de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1975) The Irish of Cois Fhairrge, Co. Galway: A Phonetic Study, revised edition, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, § 224, page 42

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