facal

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish focul, from Proto-Celtic *woxtlom, from Proto-Indo-European *wokʷtlom, from *wekʷ-.^[1]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈfaxkəɫ/

Noun

facal m (genitive singular facail, plural faclan)

Derived terms

Terms derived from facal

ceannfhacal (“headword”)
dall air faclan (“dyslexic”)
doille-fhaclan (“dyslexia”)
dubh-fhacal (“riddle”)
facal air an fhacal (“verbatim”)

facal-faire (“password”)
facal fillte (“compound”)
facal-suaicheantais (“motto”)
faclach (“verbose”)
facladair (“lexicographer; word processor”)

faclair (“dictionary; vocabulary”)
faclaireachd (“lexicography”)
faclaireil (“lexical”)
frith-fhacal (“antonym”)
mion-fhacal (“particle”)

References

↑ Stüber, Karin (1998). The Historical Morphology of n-Stems in Celtic. Maynooth: Department of Old Irish, National University of Ireland, p. 70. →ISBN.

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