fliuch

Irish

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Old Irish fliuch, from Proto-Celtic *wlikʷos (compare Welsh gwlyb, Cornish glyb), from Proto-Indo-European *wleykʷ- (compare Latin liquō (melt), Tocharian A lyīktsi (to wash)).

Adjective

fliuch (genitive singular masculine fliuch, genitive singular feminine fliche, plural fliucha, comparative fliche)

  1. wet
Declension
  • Alternative vocative/genitive singular masculine and archaic dative singular feminine form: flich
Derived terms

Verb

fliuch (present analytic fliuchann, future analytic fliuchfaidh, verbal noun fliuchadh, past participle fliuchta)

  1. (intransitive) get or become wet
  2. (transitive) make wet
Conjugation
Derived terms

Etymology 2

See fiuch.

Verb

fliuch (present analytic fliuchann, future analytic fliuchfaidh, verbal noun fliuchadh, past participle fliuchta)

  1. (transitive, intransitive) Alternative form of fiuch (boil)
Conjugation

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
fliuch fhliuch bhfliuch
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading


Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *wlikʷos (compare Welsh gwlyb, Cornish glyb), from Proto-Indo-European *wleykʷ- (compare Latin liquō (to melt), Tocharian A lyīktsi (to wash)).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fʲlʲiu̯x/

Adjective

fliuch

  1. wet

Inflection

u-stem
Singular Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative fliuch fliuch fliuch
Vocative fliuch
Accusative fliuch fliuch
Genitive flich fliuchae flich
Dative fliuch fliuch fliuch
Plural Masculine Feminine/neuter
Nominative fliuchai fliuchai
Vocative fliuchai
Accusative fliuchai
Genitive *
Dative fliuchaib
Notes *not attested in Old Irish; same as nominative singular masculine in Middle Irish

Derived terms

Descendants

Noun

fliuch n

  1. damp, wet weather

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
RadicalLenitionNasalization
fliuch ḟliuch fliuch
pronounced with /v(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References


Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish fliuch, from Proto-Celtic *wlikʷos (compare Welsh gwlyb, Cornish glyb), from Proto-Indo-European *wleykʷ- (compare Latin liquō (to melt), Tocharian A lyīktsi (to wash)).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /flux/

Adjective

fliuch (comparative fliuiche or fliche)

  1. wet, rainy, moist, damp, oozy
    fliucha rainy day
    fuar, fliuch gun deò léirsinncold, wet and stone blind
    bàta fliucha boat given to taking waves on board

Verb

fliuch (past fhliuch, future fliuchaidh, verbal noun fliuchadh, past participle fliuchte)

  1. wet, moisten
  2. water
  3. make drunk

Mutation

Scottish Gaelic mutation
RadicalLenition
fliuchfhliuch
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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