feasgar

Irish

Noun

feasgar m (genitive singular feasgair, nominative plural feasgair)

  1. Obsolete spelling of feascar (“evening”)

Declension
Declension of feasgar

First declension

Bare forms:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative feasgar feasgair
Vocative a fheasgair a fheasgara
Genitive feasgair feasgar
Dative feasgar feasgair

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an feasgar na feasgair
Genitive an fheasgair na bhfeasgar
Dative leis an bhfeasgar

don fheasgar

 leis na feasgair

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

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish fescor[1] (compare Manx fastyr and Irish feascar), from Proto-Celtic *weskʷeros (compare Middle Welsh ucher),[2] from Proto-Indo-European *wek(ʷ)speros (compare Latin vesper and Ancient Greek ἕσπερος (hésperos)).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈfes̪kəɾ/

Noun

feasgar m (genitive singular feasgair, plural feasgaran)

  1. evening, afternoon

Adverb

feasgar

  1. in the afternoon
  2. pm, p.m.
    Synonym: f
    Antonyms: m, sa mhadainn

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

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