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feighlí

feighlí

Irish

Noun

feighlí m ‎(genitive singular feighlí, nominative plural feighlithe)

watcher, tender, overseer

Declension

Declension of feighlí

Fourth declension

Bare forms

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	feighlí	feighlithe
Vocative	a fheighlí	a fheighlithe
Genitive	feighlí	feighlithe
Dative	feighlí	feighlithe

Forms with the definite article

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	an feighlí	na feighlithe
Genitive	an fheighlí	na bhfeighlithe
Dative	leis an bhfeighlí don fheighlí	leis na feighlithe

Derived terms

Terms derived from feighlí

feighlí bó ‎(“herdsman”)
feighlí cúrsa ‎(“greenkeeper”)

feighlí mara ‎(“coastguard”)
feighlíoch ‎(“vigilant, watchful”)

feighlíocht ‎(“vigilance, watchfulness; guardianship”)
feighlí páistí ‎(“babysitter”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
feighlí	fheighlí	bhfeighlí
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

"feighlí" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.