feusagach

Scottish Gaelic

Alternative forms
  • feòsagach, fèasogach

Etymology

From Old Irish fésócach (“bearded”) (compare Irish féasógach, Manx faasaagagh). By surface analysis, feusag (“beard”) +‎ -ach (adjectival suffix).

Adjective

feusagach (genitive singular masculine feusagaich, comparative feusagaiche)

  1. bearded
    Synonym: ròmach
  2. hairy
  3. barbed

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

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