Irish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Old Irish fairrge.[1]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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farraige f (genitive singular farraige, nominative plural farraigí)

  1. sea
    Bainfidh an fharraige a cuid féin amach; beidh a cuid féin ag an bhfarraige. (proverb)
    The sea will have its own, its share of tragedies.
  2. billow, swell

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Mutation

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Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
farraige fharraige bhfarraige
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “fairrge, fairge”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 118

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