foscadh

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Irish foscad (“shadow; protection”),[1] from Proto-Celtic *uɸo-skātu. Cognate with Welsh gwasgod (“shade; shelter”).

Pronunciation

Noun

foscadh m (genitive singular foscaidh, nominative plural foscaí)

  1. shelter (a refuge or other protection)
    Synonym: fothain
  2. (literary) shade
    Synonym: scáth

Declension

Declension of foscadh (first declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative foscadh foscaí
vocative a fhoscaidh a fhoscaí
genitive foscaidh foscaí
dative foscadh foscaí
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an foscadh na foscaí
genitive an fhoscaidh na bhfoscaí
dative leis an bhfoscadh
don fhoscadh 		leis na foscaí

Mutation

Mutated forms of foscadh
radical lenition eclipsis
foscadh fhoscadh bhfoscadh

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

References

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “foscad”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), Zweiter Band: Wörterbuch [Second volume: Dictionary], Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 102
  3. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 9, page 7

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