feadóg

feadóg

Irish

Etymology

From fead (“whistle”) +‎ -óg, from Old Irish fet.

Pronunciation

• (Connacht) IPA^(key): /ˈfʲad̪ˠoːɡ/

Noun

feadóg f (genitive singular feadóige, nominative plural feadóga)

1. (music) whistle (device used to make a whistling sound)
2. plover
3. tall thin woman
4. great horsetail (Equisetum telmateia)

Declension

Declension of feadóg

Second declension

Bare forms Case Singular Plural Nominative feadóg feadóga Vocative a fheadóg a fheadóga Genitive feadóige feadóg Dative feadóg feadóga

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Plural Nominative an fheadóg na feadóga Genitive na feadóige na bhfeadóg Dative leis an bhfeadóg don fheadóg leis na feadóga

Synonyms

• (tall thin woman): eilit

Hypernyms

• (great horsetail): eireaball capaill

Derived terms

(whistle):

• feadóg airde
• feadóg bósain (“boatswain's pipe”)
• feadóg mhór (“flute”)
• feadóg stáin (“tin whistle”)
• feadógaí

(plover):

• feadóg bhuí, feadóg shléibhe
• feadóg bhuí Mheiriceánach
• feadóg chladaigh (“ringed plover”)
• feadóg ghlas (“grey plover”)
• feadóg ghlórach
• feadóg mhara (“(species of) sandpiper”)
• feadóg shléibhe (“golden plover”)

Related terms

• feadaíl (“whistle”) (act of whistling)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
feadóg	fheadóg	bhfeadóg
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• "feadóg" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.