feadóg
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Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From fead (“whistle”) + -óg, from Old Irish fet.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]feadóg f (genitive singular feadóige, nominative plural feadóga)
- (music) whistle (device used to make a whistling sound)
- plover
- tall thin woman
- great horsetail (Equisetum telmateia)
Declension
[edit]Synonyms
[edit]- (tall thin woman): eilit
Hypernyms
[edit]- (great horsetail): eireaball capaill
Derived terms
[edit]- feadóg airde
- feadóg bhuí
- feadóg bhuí Mheiriceánach
- feadóg bósain (“boatswain's pipe”)
- feadóg chladaigh (“ringed plover”)
- feadóg ghlas (“grey plover”)
- feadóg ghlórach
- feadóg mhara (“sandpiper”)
- feadóg mhór (“flute”)
- feadóg shléibhe (“golden plover”)
- feadóg shléibhe
- feadóg stáin (“tin whistle”)
- feadógaí
- feadóigín chladaigh (“little ringed plover”)
- feadóigín chosdubh (“Kentish plover”)
Related terms
[edit]- feadaíl (“whistle”) (act of whistling)
Mutation
[edit]| radical | lenition | eclipsis |
|---|---|---|
| feadóg | fheadóg | bhfeadóg |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Further reading
[edit]- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “feadóg”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
Categories:
- Irish terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Irish terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *h₂weh₁-
- Irish terms suffixed with -óg
- Irish terms derived from Old Irish
- Irish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Irish lemmas
- Irish nouns
- Irish feminine nouns
- ga:Musical instruments
- Irish second-declension nouns
- ga:Horsetails
- ga:Plovers and lapwings
- ga:Female people