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fliuch

fliuch

Irish

Adjective

fliuch (genitive singular feminine fliche, plural fliucha, comparative fliche)

  1. wet

Declension

Verb

fliuch (present analytic fliuchann, future analytic fliuchfaidh, verbal noun fliuchadh, past participle fliuchta)

  1. (intransitive) get or become wet
  2. (transitive) make wet

Conjugation

Derived terms

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
fliuch fhliuch bhfliuch
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

  • "fliuch" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
  • fliuch” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *wlikʷos (compare Welsh gwlyb, Cornish glyb), from Proto-Indo-European *wleykʷ- (compare Latin liquō (to melt), Tocharian A lyīktsi (to wash)).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fʲlʲiu̯x/

Adjective

fliuch

  1. wet

Inflection

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Derived terms

Descendants

Noun

fliuch ?

  1. damp, wet weather

Inflection

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Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
fliuch ḟliuch fliuch
pronounced with /v(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

  • fliuch” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish fliuch, from Proto-Celtic *wlikʷos (compare Welsh gwlyb, Cornish glyb), from Proto-Indo-European *wleykʷ- (compare Latin liquō (to melt), Tocharian A lyīktsi (to wash)).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fliux/(Can we verify(+) this pronunciation?)

Adjective

fliuch (comparative fliuiche or fliche)

  1. wet, rainy, moist, damp, oozy
    fliuch ― a rainy day
    fuar, fliuch gun deò léirsinn ― cold, wet and stone blind
    bàta fliuch ― a boat given to taking waves on board

Verb

fliuch (past fhliuch, future fliuchaidh, verbal noun fliuchadh, past participle fliuchte)

  1. wet, moisten
  2. water
  3. make drunk

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 0 901771 92 9
  • A Pronouncing and Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language (John Grant, Edinburgh, 1925, Compiled by Malcolm MacLennan)
  • fliuch” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.