focheadal

Irish

Etymology

From fo- (“minor, lesser”) ‎ ceadal (“recital”).

Noun

focheadal m (genitive singular focheadail)

1. (literary, music) (act of) singing, chanting (in accompaniment)

Declension

Declension of focheadal (first declension, no plural)

bare forms case singular nominative focheadal vocative a fhocheadail genitive focheadail dative focheadal forms with the definite article case singular nominative an focheadal genitive an fhocheadail dative leis an bhfocheadal don fhocheadal

Mutation

Mutated forms of focheadal

radical	lenition	eclipsis
focheadal	fhocheadal	bhfocheadal

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “focheadal”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN