feolmhach

Irish

Alternative forms

  • feolbhach
  • feólbhach, feólmhach

Etymology

From Middle Irish feólbach, from Old Irish féoil (“meat”).

Pronunciation

  • (Ulster) IPA(key): /ˈfʲɔːlˠwaxi/, /ˈfʲɔːl̪ˠwaxi/[1] (corresponding to an unattested feminine plural form *feolmhacha)

Noun

feolmhach m (genitive singular feolmhaigh)

  1. fleshmeat, raw flesh

Declension

Declension of feolmhach (first declension, no plural)
bare forms
singular
nominative feolmhach
vocative a fheolmhaigh
genitive feolmhaigh
dative feolmhach
forms with the definite article
singular
nominative an feolmhach
genitive an fheolmhaigh
dative leis an bhfeolmhach
don fheolmhach

Mutation

Mutated forms of feolmhach
radical lenition eclipsis
feolmhach fheolmhach bhfeolmhach

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

References

  1. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 75

Further reading

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