facal
Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
From Old Irish focul, from Proto-Celtic *woxtlom, from Proto-Indo-European *wokʷtlom, from *wekʷ-.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfaxkəɫ/
Noun
facal m (genitive singular facail, plural faclan)
- word
- language
- comment, phrase
Derived terms
- ceannfhacal (“headword”)
- dall air faclan (“dyslexic”)
- doille-fhaclan (“dyslexia”)
- dubh-fhacal (“riddle”)
- facal air an fhacal (“verbatim”)
- facal-faire (“password”)
- facal fillte (“compound”)
- facal-suaicheantais (“motto”)
- faclach (“verbose”)
- facladair (“lexicographer; word processor”)
- faclair (“dictionary; vocabulary”)
- faclaireachd (“lexicography”)
- faclaireil (“lexical”)
- frith-fhacal (“antonym”)
- mion-fhacal (“particle”)
References
- Stüber, Karin (1998). The Historical Morphology of n-Stems in Celtic. Maynooth: Department of Old Irish, National University of Ireland, p. 70. →ISBN.