fearsaid

Irish

Alternative forms
  • fearsad, feartas, feartus[1][2]

Pronunciation
  • (Aran) IPA(key): /ˈfʲaɾˠsˠədʲ/, (corresponding to the form fearsad) /ˈfʲaɾˠsˠəd̪ˠ/[3]

Noun

fearsaid f (genitive singular fearsaide, nominative plural fearsaidí)

  1. spindle (rod in spinning and winding thread; rod which turns, or on which something turns round; rotary axis of a machine tool or power tool)
  2. shaft (in an engine)
  3. axle, axletree
  4. peg of a top
  5. sandbank at low water
  6. ditty, piece of poetry or verse

Declension
Declension of fearsaid

Second declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative fearsaid fearsaidí
Vocative a fhearsaid a fhearsaidí
Genitive fearsaide fearsaidí
Dative fearsaid fearsaidí

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an fhearsaid na fearsaidí
Genitive na fearsaide na bhfearsaidí
Dative leis an bhfearsaid

don fhearsaid

 leis na fearsaidí

Alternative genitive singular: feirste

Derived terms
  • Béal Feirste (“Belfast”)
  • crann fearsaide (“axletree”)
  • fearsaid thiomána (“driving axle”)
  • lorgfhearsaid (“club”)
  • muinchille fearsaide (“axle sleeve”)

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

References
  1. “fearsaid”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “feartas”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
  3. Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 272

Further reading
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