fuadach

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish fúatach.

Pronunciation

Noun

fuadach m (genitive singular fuadaigh, nominative plural fuadaigh)

  1. verbal noun of fuadaigh
  2. abduction (wrongful carrying off of a human being), kidnapping
  3. snatching away, snatching up, plundering
  4. rape
    Synonym: éigniú
  5. hijacking
  6. (draughts) huff (removing an opponent's piece as a forfeit for deliberately not taking a piece)

Declension

Declension of fuadach (first declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative fuadach fuadaigh
vocative a fhuadaigh a fhuadacha
genitive fuadaigh fuadach
dative fuadach fuadaigh
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an fuadach na fuadaigh
genitive an fhuadaigh na bhfuadach
dative leis an bhfuadach
don fhuadach 		leis na fuadaigh

Derived terms

  • fuadach croí (“heavy beating of the heart, palpitation”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of fuadach
radical lenition eclipsis
fuadach fhuadach bhfuadach

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

Further reading

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