fuireachas

Irish

Alternative forms

  • fuireachan, fuireachras
  • furachas (Ulster)
  • fuireachrus, fuirechrus, furachras, furachrus, furachus, furchas (obsolete)[1]

Etymology

Dissimilated from earlier fuireachras, from Middle Irish furachrus.[2] By surface analysis, fuireachair +‎ -as. Cognate with Scottish Gaelic furachas.

Pronunciation

Noun

fuireachas m (genitive singular fuireachais)

  1. (act of) expecting, expectation, (act of) waiting for
  2. watchfulness, vigilance, cautiousness
  3. (military) stand-to

Declension

Declension of fuireachas (first declension, no plural)
bare forms
singular
nominative fuireachas
vocative a fhuireachais
genitive fuireachais
dative fuireachas
forms with the definite article
singular
nominative an fuireachas
genitive an fhuireachais
dative leis an bhfuireachas
don fhuireachas

Derived terms

  • ar fuireachas

Mutation

Mutated forms of fuireachas
radical lenition eclipsis
fuireachas fhuireachas bhfuireachas

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

References

  1. ^ “fuireachas”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “fuirechras, furachras”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 24

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