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ficheall

ficheall

Irish

Ficheall

Noun

ficheall f ‎(genitive singular fichille)

chess (two-player board game)
chessboard

Declension

Declension of ficheall

Second declension

Bare forms (no plural form of this noun)

Case	Singular
Nominative	ficheall
Vocative	a fhicheall
Genitive	fichille
Dative	ficheall

Forms with the definite article

Case	Singular
Nominative	an fhicheall
Genitive	na fichille
Dative	leis an bhficheall don fhicheall

Synonyms

(chessboard): clár fichille

Derived terms

Terms derived from ficheall

fear fichille ‎(“chess piece, chessman”)
fiann fichille, foireann fichille ‎(“set of chessmen”)

ficheallaí, imreoir fichille ‎(“chess player”)

fichillín ‎(“pawn”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
ficheall	fhicheall	bhficheall
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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