feadóg

Irish

Etymology

From fead (“whistle”) +‎ -óg, from Old Irish fet.

Pronunciation

Noun

feadóg f (genitive singular feadóige, nominative plural feadóga)

  1. (music) whistle (device used to make a whistling sound)
  2. plover
  3. tall thin woman
  4. great horsetail (Equisetum telmateia)

Declension

Declension of feadóg (second declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative feadóg feadóga
vocative a fheadóg a fheadóga
genitive feadóige feadóg
dative feadóg
feadóig (archaic, dialectal) 		feadóga
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an fheadóg na feadóga
genitive na feadóige na bhfeadóg
dative leis an bhfeadóg
leis an bhfeadóig (archaic, dialectal)
don fheadóg
don fheadóig (archaic, dialectal) 		leis na feadóga

Synonyms

Hypernyms

Derived terms

  • feadaíl (“whistle”) (act of whistling)

Mutation

Mutated forms of feadóg
radical lenition eclipsis
feadóg fheadóg bhfeadóg

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

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