failc

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish failc (“gap”).

Noun

failc f (genitive singular failce, nominative plural failceacha)

  1. opening, gap
  2. harelip

Declension
Declension of failc

Second declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative failc failceacha
Vocative a fhailc a fhailceacha
Genitive failce failceacha
Dative failc failceacha

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an fhailc na failceacha
Genitive na failce na bhfailceacha
Dative leis an bhfailc

don fhailc

 leis na failceacha

Derived terms
  • failceach (“harelipped”, adjective)

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

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology 1

From Old Irish folcaid (“washes”), from Proto-Celtic *wolk-, from Proto-Indo-European *welg- (“wet, damp”).

Verb

failc (past dh'fhailc, future failcidh, verbal noun faiceadh, past participle failcte)

  1. bathe

Etymology 2

From Middle Irish failc (“gap”).

Noun

failc f (genitive singular failce, plural failcean)

  1. opening, gap
  2. harelip
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