fidléir

Irish

Alternative forms
  • fidiléir
  • fidileoir

Etymology

From fidil (“fiddle”) +‎ -éir (agent noun suffix).

Noun

fidléir m (genitive singular fidléara, nominative plural fidléirí)

  1. fiddler

Declension
Declension of fidléir

Third declension

Bare forms:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative fidléir fidléirí
Vocative a fhidléir a fhidléirí
Genitive fidléara fidléirí
Dative fidléir fidléirí

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an fidléir na fidléirí
Genitive an fhidléara na bhfidléirí
Dative leis an bhfidléir

don fhidléir

 leis na fidléirí

Derived terms
  • fidléireacht (“fiddle-playing; (act of) fiddling, trifling”)

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

Further reading
  • Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “fidléir”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
  • “fiddler”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2024
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