feascar

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Irish fescor[2] (compare Manx fastyr and Scottish Gaelic feasgar), from Proto-Celtic *weskʷeros (compare Middle Welsh ucher),[3] from Proto-Indo-European *wek(ʷ)speros (compare Latin vesper and Ancient Greek ἕσπερος (hésperos)).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfʲasˠkəɾˠ/

Noun

feascar m (genitive singular feascair, nominative plural feascair)

  1. evening
    Synonym: tráthnóna
  2. vespers
    Synonym: easparta

Declension

Declension of feascar (first declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative feascar feascair
vocative a fheascair a fheascara
genitive feascair feascar
dative feascar feascair
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an feascar na feascair
genitive an fheascair na bhfeascar
dative leis an bhfeascar
don fheascar 		leis na feascair

Mutation

Mutated forms of feascar
radical lenition eclipsis
feascar fheascar bhfeascar

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

References

  1. ^ “feascar”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 fescor”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*weskʷero-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 416

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