fathach

Irish

Alternative forms

aitheach, athach

Etymology

From Old Irish aithech (“farmer, peasant, countryman, churl, rent-payer”). Cognate with Scottish Gaelic athach.

Pronunciation

(Connacht, Munster) IPA^(key): /ˈfˠa.həx/
(Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈfˠaiha(x)/, /fˠaːx/[1]

Noun

fathach m (genitive singular fathaigh, nominative plural fathaigh)

giant
giant star
bear (big man)
fathach fir ― a bear of a man

Declension

Declension of fathach

First declension

Bare forms:

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	fathach	fathaigh
Vocative	a fhathaigh	a fhathacha
Genitive	fathaigh	fathach
Dative	fathach	fathaigh

Forms with the definite article:

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	an fathach	na fathaigh
Genitive	an fhathaigh	na bhfathach
Dative	leis an bhfathach don fhathach	leis na fathaigh

Derived terms

banfhathach (“giantess”)
fathach dearg (“red giant”)
fathach fir (“huge man, giant of a man”)
fathach gorm (“blue giant”)
fathach-tuatha (“plebeian”)
finéal fathaigh (“giant fennel”)
fo-fhathach (“subgiant”)
obair fathaigh (“gigantic, herculean, task”)
ollfhathach (“supergiant”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
fathach	fhathach	bhfathach
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

See also

abhac

References

Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 183, page 70

Further reading

Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “fathach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 aithech”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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