fichead

Irish

Pronunciation

Noun

fichead m

  1. genitive singular of fiche

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

References
  1. Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 110

Scottish Gaelic
Scottish Gaelic numbers (edit)
200
 ←  10  ←  19 20 21  → [a], [b] 30  → [a], [b], [c]
2
    Cardinal: fichead
    Ordinal: ficheadamh
    Ordinal abbreviation: 20mh

Etymology

From Old Irish fichet (compare Manx feed), genitive singular of fiche (“twenty”), from Proto-Celtic *wikantī (compare Welsh ugain), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁wih₁ḱm̥t (compare Latin vīgintī), from *dwi(h₁)dḱm̥ti (“two-ten”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈfiçət̪/
  • (Sutherland, Arran) IPA(key): /fit̪/; /ˈfi.ət̪/

Numeral

fichead

  1. twenty

Usage notes
  • The following noun is in the singular:
    fichead leabhar ― twenty books
  • In the older, vigesimal system of counting in Scottish Gaelic, the numerals 40, 60, 80, 120, 140, 160 and 180 are denoted as multiples of 20, hence:
    dà fhichead leabhar ― forty books (literally, “two [times] twenty books”)
    seachd fichead leabhar ― 140 books (literally, “seven [times] twenty books”)

Derived terms

Noun

fichead m

  1. twenty, score

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

Further reading
  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “fichead”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • MacLennan, Malcolm (1925) A Pronouncing and Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Edinburgh: J. Grant, →OCLC
  • G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “fiche”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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