feascar

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Irish fescor[2] (compare Manx fastyr and Scottish Gaelic feasgar), from Proto-Celtic *weskʷeros (compare Middle Welsh ucher),[3] from Proto-Indo-European *wek(ʷ)speros (compare Latin vesper and Ancient Greek ἕσπερος (hésperos)).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈfʲasˠkəɾˠ/

Noun

feascar m (genitive singular feascair, nominative plural feascair)

  1. evening
    Synonym: tráthnóna
  2. vespers
    Synonym: easparta

Declension
Declension of feascar

First declension

Bare forms:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative feascar feascair
Vocative a fheascair a fheascara
Genitive feascair feascar
Dative feascar feascair

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an feascar na feascair
Genitive an fheascair na bhfeascar
Dative leis an bhfeascar

don fheascar

 leis na feascair

Mutation
Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
feascar fheascar bhfeascar
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References
  1. “feascar”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 fescor”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*weskʷero-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 416

Further reading
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