fiacháil

Irish

Alternative forms
  • féacháil
  • feucháil (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from Scottish Gaelic feuchail (from Middle Irish fégaid, féchaid and thus related to féach (“to look”)), as shown by both the phonology (the change of Middle Irish é to /ia̯/ is typical of Scottish Gaelic but not of Ulster Irish) and the semantic shift from “look” to “test, taste”.

Pronunciation

Noun

fiacháil f (genitive singular fiachála, nominative plural fiachálacha) (Ulster)

  1. a trial, attempt, test
  2. a (small) taste
  3. a contest

Declension
Declension of fiacháil

Third declension

Bare forms:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative fiacháil fiachálacha
Vocative a fhiacháil a fhiachálacha
Genitive fiachála fiachálacha
Dative fiacháil fiachálacha

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an fhiacháil na fiachálacha
Genitive na fiachála na bhfiachálacha
Dative leis an bhfiacháil

don fhiacháil

 leis na fiachálacha

Mutation
Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
fiacháil fhiacháil bhfiacháil
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References
  1. Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 9

Further reading
  • “fiacháil”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  • Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “féaċáil”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 301
  • Entries containing “fiacháil” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
  • Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “fiacháil”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
  • Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “fiacháil”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
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