fiacháil

== Irish == === Alternative forms === féacháil feucháil (obsolete) === Etymology === Borrowed from Scottish Gaelic feuchail (from Middle Irish fégaid, féchaid and thus related to féach (“to look”)), as shown by both the phonology (the change of Middle Irish é to /ia̯/ is typical of Scottish Gaelic but not of Ulster Irish) and the semantic shift from “look” to “test, taste”. === Pronunciation === (Ulster) IPA(key): /ˈfʲia̯xælʲ/ === Noun === fiacháil f (genitive singular fiachála, nominative plural fiachálacha) (Ulster) a trial, attempt, test a (small) taste a contest ==== Declension ==== === Mutation === === References === === Further reading === Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904), “féaċáil”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 301 “fiacháil”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2026 Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “fiacháil”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN