fichead

Irish

fichead m

Mutated forms of *fichead*
radical	lenition	eclipsis
fichead	fhichead	bhfichead

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

^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), Zweiter Band: Wörterbuch [Second volume: Dictionary], Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 110

**Scottish Gaelic numbers ^(edit)**
		200
← 10	^{[a], [b]} ← 19	20	21 → ^{[a], [b]}	30 → ^{[a], [b], [c]}
		2
Cardinal: fichead Standalone: a fichead Ordinal: ficheadamh Ordinal abbreviation: 20mh

From Old Irish fichet (compare Manx feed), genitive singular of fiche (“twenty”), from Proto-Celtic *wikantī (compare Welsh ugain), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁wih₁ḱm̥t (compare Latin vīgintī), from *dwi(h₁)dḱm̥ti (“two-ten”).

fichead

The following noun is in the singular:
fichead leabhar ― twenty books
In the older, vigesimal system of counting in Scottish Gaelic, the numerals 40, 60, 80, 120, 140, 160 and 180 are denoted as multiples of 20, hence:
dà fhichead leabhar ― forty books (literally, “two [times] twenty books”)

seachd fichead leabhar ― 140 books (literally, “seven [times] twenty books”)

fichead m

Mutation of *fichead*
radical	lenition
fichead	fhichead

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

Edward Dwelly (1911) “fichead”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎^[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
MacLennan, Malcolm (1925) A Pronouncing and Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Edinburgh: J. Grant, →OCLC
Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “fiche”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language