Irish
Etymology
From feart (“mound, tumulus; grave”) + laoi (“lay, (narrative) poem”).
Noun
feartlaoi f (genitive singular feartlaoi, nominative plural feartlaoithe)
- epitaph
Declension
Declension of feartlaoi (fourth declension)
| bare forms
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singular
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plural
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| nominative
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feartlaoi
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feartlaoithe
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| vocative
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a fheartlaoi
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a fheartlaoithe
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| genitive
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feartlaoi
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feartlaoithe
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| dative
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feartlaoi
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feartlaoithe
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Mutation
Mutated forms of feartlaoi
| radical
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lenition
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eclipsis
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| feartlaoi
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fheartlaoi
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bhfeartlaoi
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Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
References
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “feartlaoi”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- “epitaph”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “feartlaoi”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm