fuiseog

Irish
Fuiseog

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Irish uiseóc; compare Manx ushag and Scottish Gaelic uiseag.[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

fuiseog f (genitive singular fuiseoige, nominative plural fuiseoga)

  1. lark, skylark

Declension
Declension of fuiseog

Second declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative fuiseog fuiseoga
Vocative a fhuiseog a fhuiseoga
Genitive fuiseoige fuiseog
Dative fuiseog
fuiseoig (archaic, dialectal)		 fuiseoga

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an fhuiseog na fuiseoga
Genitive na fuiseoige na bhfuiseog
Dative leis an bhfuiseog
leis an bhfuiseoig (archaic, dialectal)

don fhuiseog
don fhuiseoig (archaic, dialectal)

 leis na fuiseoga

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

References
  1. G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “uiseóg, fuiseóg”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 44

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