fleasgach

Irish

Noun

fleasgach m (genitive singular fleasgaigh, nominative plural fleasgaigh)

  1. superseded spelling of fleascach

Declension

Declension of fleasgach (first declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative fleasgach fleasgaigh
vocative a fhleasgaigh a fhleasgacha
genitive fleasgaigh fleasgach
dative fleasgach fleasgaigh
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an fleasgach na fleasgaigh
genitive an fhleasgaigh na bhfleasgach
dative leis an bhfleasgach
don fhleasgach 		leis na fleasgaigh

Adjective

fleasgach (genitive singular masculine fleasgaigh, genitive singular feminine fleasgaighe, plural fleasgacha, comparative fleasgaighe)

  1. superseded spelling of fleascach

Declension

Declension of fleasgach
Positive singular plural
masculine feminine strong noun weak noun
nominative fleasgach fhleasgach fleasgacha;
fhleasgacha2
vocative fhleasgaigh fleasgacha
genitive fleasgaighe fleasgacha fleasgach
dative fleasgach;
fhleasgach1 		fhleasgach;
fhleasgaigh (archaic) 		fleasgacha;
fhleasgacha2
Comparative níos fleasgaighe
Superlative is fleasgaighe

1 When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
2 When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

Mutation

Mutated forms of fleasgach
radical lenition eclipsis
fleasgach fhleasgach bhfleasgach

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 Middle Irish flescach (“lad under 17, whose weapon was a rod or wand rather than a spear”).[1] By surface analysis, fleasg (“wand”) +‎ -ach. Cognate with Irish fleascach.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfles̪kəx/

Noun

fleasgach m (genitive and plural fleasgaich)

  1. bachelor
  2. squire
  3. best man
  4. (archaic) stripling, young man, youth

Synonyms

References

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “flescach or dil.ie/22309”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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