feusagach
Scottish Gaelic
Alternative forms
- feòsagach, fèasogach
Etymology
From Old Irish fésócach (“bearded”) (compare Irish féasógach, Manx faasaagagh). By surface analysis, feusag (“beard”) + -ach (adjectival suffix).
Adjective
feusagach (genitive singular masculine feusagaich, comparative feusagaiche)
Mutation
| Scottish Gaelic mutation | |
|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition |
| feusagach | fheusagach |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | |
Further reading
- Edward Dwelly (1911), “feusagach”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “fésócach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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