fiarshúil

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From fiar (“slant”) +‎ súil (“eye”).

Pronunciation

Noun

fiarshúil f (genitive singular fiarshúile, nominative plural fiarshúile)

  1. squint (look of eyes which are turned in different directions, like in strabismus)
    Tá fiarshúil i m’iníon.
    My daughter squints/has a squint.

Declension
Declension of fiarshúil

Second declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative fiarshúil fiarshúile
Vocative a fhiarshúil a fhiarshúile
Genitive fiarshúile fiarshúl
Dative fiarshúil fiarshúile

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an fhiarshúil na fiarshúile
Genitive na fiarshúile na bhfiarshúl
Dative leis an bhfiarshúil

don fhiarshúil

 leis na fiarshúile

Derived terms
  • fiarshúileach
  • fiarshúilí

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

References
  1. “fiarshúil”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 102

Further reading
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