feasgar

Irish

Noun

feasgar m (genitive singular feasgair, nominative plural feasgair)

  1. obsolete spelling of feascar (“evening”)

Declension

Declension of feasgar (first declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative feasgar feasgair
vocative a fheasgair a fheasgara
genitive feasgair feasgar
dative feasgar feasgair
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an feasgar na feasgair
genitive an fheasgair na bhfeasgar
dative leis an bhfeasgar
don fheasgar 		leis na feasgair

Mutation

Mutated forms of feasgar
radical lenition eclipsis
feasgar fheasgar bhfeasgar

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

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish fescor[1] (compare Manx fastyr and Irish feascar), from Proto-Celtic *weskʷeros (compare Middle Welsh ucher),[2] from Proto-Indo-European *wek(ʷ)speros (compare Latin vesper and Ancient Greek ἕσπερος (hésperos)).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfes̪kəɾ/

Noun

feasgar m (genitive singular feasgair, plural feasgaran)

  1. evening, afternoon

Adverb

feasgar

  1. in the afternoon
  2. pm, p.m.
    Synonym: f
    Antonyms: m, sa mhadainn

Mutation

Mutation of feasgar
radical lenition
feasgar fheasgar

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

References

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 fescor”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ 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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