fichead
Irish
Mutation
| Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| fichead | fhichead | bhfichead |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
From Old Irish fichet (compare Manx feed), genitive singular of fiche (“twenty”), from Proto-Celtic *wikantī (compare Welsh ugain), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁wih₁ḱm̥t (compare Latin vīgintī), from *dwi(h₁)dḱm̥ti (“two-ten”).
Usage notes
- The following noun is in the singular:
- fichead leabhar ― twenty books
- In the older, vigesimal system of counting in Scottish Gaelic, the numerals 40, 60, 80, 120, 140, 160 and 180 are denoted as multiples of 20, hence:
- dà fhichead leabhar ― forty books (literally, “two [times] twenty books”)
- seachd fichead leabhar ― 140 books (literally, “seven [times] twenty books”)
Derived terms
- air fhichead (“twenty-...”)
- ficheadamh (“twentieth”)
Mutation
| Scottish Gaelic mutation | |
|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition |
| fichead | fhichead |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | |
References
- Faclair Gàidhlig Dwelly Air Loidhne, Dwelly, Edward (1911), Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic-English Dictionary (10th ed.), Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
- A Pronouncing and Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language (John Grant, Edinburgh, 1925, Complied by Malcolm MacLennan)
- “fiche” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
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