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)

(music) whistle (device used to make a whistling sound)
plover
tall thin woman
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.

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