fuáil

See also: fuail

Irish

Alternative forms

  • fuagháil (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle Irish fúaigel,[1] úaigel m (“sewing”),[2] verbal noun of úaigid, úaigid (“to sew”). By surface analysis, fuaigh +‎ -áil.

Pronunciation

Noun

fuáil f (genitive singular fuála)

  1. verbal noun of fuaigh
  2. stitching, sewing, needlework

Declension

Declension of fuáil (third declension, no plural)
bare forms
singular
nominative fuáil
vocative a fhuáil
genitive fuála
dative fuáil
forms with the definite article
singular
nominative an fhuáil
genitive na fuála
dative leis an bhfuáil
don fhuáil

Derived terms

  • bean fuála f (“seamstress, needlewoman, sewing-woman”)
  • bosca fuála m (“(sewing) work-box”)
  • cailín fuála m (“sewing-maid”)
  • ciseán fuála m (“work-basket”)
  • fáisceán fuála m (“sewing-press”)
  • fuáil chúil f (“back-stitching”)
  • fuáil fhrancach f (“herringbone stitch”)
  • fuáil innill f (“machining”)
  • fuáil thar droim f (“back-stitching”)
  • fuálaí m (“needlewoman, sewer”)
  • inneall fuála m (“sewing-machine”)
  • mála fuála m (“(sewing) work-bag”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of fuáil
radical lenition eclipsis
fuáil fhuáil bhfuáil

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

References

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “fúaigél”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “úaigél”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), Zweiter Band: Wörterbuch [Second volume: Dictionary], Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 116
  4. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 168, page 63

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