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freagairt

freagairt

Irish

Noun

freagairt f (genitive singular freagartha)

  1. verbal noun of freagair
  2. answering, answer; correspondence; responsibility; reaction, response
  3. (fishing) rise, bite
  4. attention, observance
  5. (geology) outcrop

Declension

Synonyms

  • (attention, observance): freagar

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
freagairt fhreagairt bhfreagairt
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish frecairt (the act of answering), from frecra, frecrae, verbal noun of fris·gair (answers, replies).

Noun

freagairt f (genitive singular freagairt or freagairte, plural freagairtean)

  1. verbal noun of freagair
  2. answer
  3. reply

Mutation

Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical Lenition
freagairt fhreagairt
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.