[go: up one dir, main page]
Wiktionary

fleascach

Irish

edit

Etymology 1

edit

From Middle Irish flescach (“lad under 17, whose weapon was a rod or wand rather than a spear”).[1] By surface analysis, fleasc (“wand”) +‎ -ach. Cognate with Scottish Gaelic fleasgach.

Alternative forms

edit

Noun

edit

fleascach m (genitive singular fleascaigh, nominative plural fleascaigh)

  1. stripling, youth
  2. rascal
Declension
edit
Declension of fleascach

First declension

Bare forms:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative fleascach fleascaigh
Vocative a fhleascaigh a fhleascacha
Genitive fleascaigh fleascach
Dative fleascach fleascaigh

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an fleascach na fleascaigh
Genitive an fhleascaigh na bhfleascach
Dative leis an bhfleascach

don fhleascach

leis na fleascaigh

Etymology 2

edit

From Middle Irish flescach (“abounding in shoot or branches; youthful”).[1] By surface analysis, fleasc (“wand”) +‎ -ach.

Alternative forms

edit

Adjective

edit

fleascach (genitive singular masculine fleascaigh, genitive singular feminine fleascaí, plural fleascacha, comparative fleascaí)

  1. youthful
  2. wreathed
Declension
edit
Declension of fleascach
Singular Plural (m/f)
Positive Masculine Feminine (strong noun) (weak noun)
Nominative fleascach fhleascach fleascacha;
fhleascacha²
Vocative fhleascaigh fleascacha
Genitive fleascaí fleascacha fleascach
Dative fleascach;
fhleascach¹ 		fhleascach;
fhleascaigh (archaic) 		fleascacha;
fhleascacha²
Comparative níos fleascaí
Superlative is fleascaí

¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

Mutation

edit
Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
fleascach fhleascach bhfleascach
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

edit
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “flescach or dil.ie/22309”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ “fleascach”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  3. ^ “fleascach”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy

Further reading

edit
Retrieved from "https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=fleascach&oldid=80704598"