fidléir

Irish

Alternative forms

  • fidiléir
  • fidileoir

Etymology

From fidil (“fiddle”) +‎ -éir (agent noun suffix).

Noun

fidléir m (genitive singular fidléara, nominative plural fidléirí)

  1. fiddler

Declension

Declension of fidléir (third declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative fidléir fidléirí
vocative a fhidléir a fhidléirí
genitive fidléara fidléirí
dative fidléir fidléirí
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an fidléir na fidléirí
genitive an fhidléara na bhfidléirí
dative leis an bhfidléir
don fhidléir 		leis na fidléirí

Derived terms

  • fidléireacht (“fiddle-playing; (act of) fiddling, trifling”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of fidléir
radical lenition eclipsis
fidléir fhidléir bhfidléir

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

  • Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “fidléir”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
  • “fiddler”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025
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