"ficheall" meaning in Irish

See ficheall in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ˈfʲɪhəl̪ˠ/ [Munster], /ˈfʲɪhəl̪ˠ/ [Connacht], /fʲiːl̪ˠ/ [Connacht], /ˈfʲɪçəl̪ˠ/ [Ulster]
Etymology: From Middle Irish fidchell, from Proto-Celtic *widukʷēslā (literally “wood intelligence”). Compare Welsh gwyddbwyll. Etymology templates: {{inh|ga|mga|fidchell}} Middle Irish fidchell, {{inh|ga|cel-pro|*widukʷēslā|lit=wood intelligence}} Proto-Celtic *widukʷēslā (literally “wood intelligence”), {{cog|cy|gwyddbwyll}} Welsh gwyddbwyll Head templates: {{head|ga|noun|genitive singular|fichille||||||||-|||||altform=|cat2=|f1request=1|f4request=1|g=f|g2=|g3=|head=}} ficheall f (genitive singular fichille), {{ga-noun|f|fichille|-}} ficheall f (genitive singular fichille) Inflection templates: {{ga-mut}} Forms: fichille [genitive, singular], no-table-tags [table-tags], ficheall [indefinite, nominative, singular], a fhicheall [indefinite, singular, vocative], fichille [genitive, indefinite, singular], ficheall [dative, indefinite, singular], fichill [archaic, dative, dialectal, indefinite, singular], no-table-tags [table-tags], an fhicheall [definite, nominative, singular], na fichille [definite, genitive, singular], leis an bhficheall [dative, definite, singular], leis an bhfichill [archaic, dative, definite, dialectal, singular], don fhicheall [dative, definite, singular], don fhichill [archaic, dative, definite, dialectal, singular], no-table-tags [table-tags], ficheall [error-unrecognized-form], fhicheall [error-unrecognized-form], bhficheall [error-unrecognized-form], fidhcheall [alternative]
  1. chess (two-player board game) Tags: feminine
    Sense id: en-ficheall-ga-noun-e0JiMf74 Categories (other): Pages with 1 entry, Chess Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 46 54 Disambiguation of Chess: 67 33
  2. chessboard Tags: feminine
    Sense id: en-ficheall-ga-noun-sAhlGAz2 Categories (other): Irish entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Irish entries with incorrect language header: 18 82 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 46 54 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 42 58
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: clár fichille Derived forms: fear fichille (english: chess piece, chessman), fiann fichille (english: set of chessmen), ficheallaí (english: chess player), fichillín (english: pawn), foireann fichille (english: set of chessmen), imreoir fichille (english: chess player)

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "english": "chess piece, chessman",
      "translation": "chess piece, chessman",
      "word": "fear fichille"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "english": "set of chessmen",
      "translation": "set of chessmen",
      "word": "fiann fichille"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "english": "chess player",
      "translation": "chess player",
      "word": "ficheallaí"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "english": "pawn",
      "translation": "pawn",
      "word": "fichillín"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "english": "set of chessmen",
      "translation": "set of chessmen",
      "word": "foireann fichille"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "english": "chess player",
      "translation": "chess player",
      "word": "imreoir fichille"
    }
  ],
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    },
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        "genitive",
        "singular"
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    },
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      "form": "ficheall",
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        "singular"
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      "source": "declension",
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    },
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        "singular"
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    },
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        "indefinite",
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    },
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      "source": "declension",
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        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "an fhicheall",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "na fichille",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
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        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "leis an bhficheall",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
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        "definite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "leis an bhfichill",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "archaic",
        "dative",
        "definite",
        "dialectal",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
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      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "definite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "don fhichill",
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        "archaic",
        "dative",
        "definite",
        "dialectal",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "mutation",
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        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "ga-mut",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ficheall",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
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      "form": "fhicheall",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bhficheall",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "fidhcheall",
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      ]
    }
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        "11": "",
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        "14": "",
        "15": "",
        "16": "",
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        "5": "",
        "6": "",
        "7": "",
        "8": "",
        "9": "",
        "altform": "",
        "cat2": "",
        "f1request": "1",
        "f4request": "1",
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        "g3": "",
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      "args": {},
      "name": "ga-mut"
    }
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  "lang": "Irish",
  "lang_code": "ga",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "_dis": "46 54",
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          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
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          "name": "Chess",
          "orig": "ga:Chess",
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        }
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      ],
      "id": "en-ficheall-ga-noun-e0JiMf74",
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          "_dis": "46 54",
          "kind": "other",
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          "parents": [],
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        },
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          "_dis": "42 58",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
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        }
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        [
          "chessboard",
          "chessboard"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˈfʲɪhəl̪ˠ/",
      "tags": [
        "Munster"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈfʲɪhəl̪ˠ/",
      "tags": [
        "Connacht"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/fʲiːl̪ˠ/",
      "tags": [
        "Connacht"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈfʲɪçəl̪ˠ/",
      "tags": [
        "Ulster"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "clár fichille"
    }
  ],
  "word": "ficheall"
}

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    "Irish feminine nouns",
    "Irish lemmas",
    "Irish nouns",
    "Irish second-declension nouns",
    "Irish terms derived from Middle Irish",
    "Irish terms derived from Proto-Celtic",
    "Irish terms inherited from Middle Irish",
    "Irish terms inherited from Proto-Celtic",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries",
    "ga:Chess"
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  "derived": [
    {
      "english": "chess piece, chessman",
      "translation": "chess piece, chessman",
      "word": "fear fichille"
    },
    {
      "english": "set of chessmen",
      "translation": "set of chessmen",
      "word": "fiann fichille"
    },
    {
      "english": "chess player",
      "translation": "chess player",
      "word": "ficheallaí"
    },
    {
      "english": "pawn",
      "translation": "pawn",
      "word": "fichillín"
    },
    {
      "english": "set of chessmen",
      "translation": "set of chessmen",
      "word": "foireann fichille"
    },
    {
      "english": "chess player",
      "translation": "chess player",
      "word": "imreoir fichille"
    }
  ],
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      },
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      "name": "inh"
    },
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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "fichille",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ficheall",
      "source": "declension",
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        "indefinite",
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "a fhicheall",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "indefinite",
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fichille",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "indefinite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ficheall",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "indefinite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fichill",
      "source": "declension",
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        "archaic",
        "dative",
        "dialectal",
        "indefinite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
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      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "an fhicheall",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "na fichille",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "leis an bhficheall",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "definite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "leis an bhfichill",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "archaic",
        "dative",
        "definite",
        "dialectal",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "don fhicheall",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "definite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "don fhichill",
      "source": "declension",
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        "archaic",
        "dative",
        "definite",
        "dialectal",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
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      ]
    },
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        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ficheall",
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      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
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    },
    {
      "form": "fhicheall",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bhficheall",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
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      "form": "fidhcheall",
      "tags": [
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      ]
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  "lang": "Irish",
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  "pos": "noun",
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    {
      "glosses": [
        "chess (two-player board game)"
      ],
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        [
          "chess",
          "chess"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
    {
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        "feminine"
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    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈfʲɪhəl̪ˠ/",
      "tags": [
        "Munster"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈfʲɪhəl̪ˠ/",
      "tags": [
        "Connacht"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/fʲiːl̪ˠ/",
      "tags": [
        "Connacht"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈfʲɪçəl̪ˠ/",
      "tags": [
        "Ulster"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "clár fichille"
    }
  ],
  "word": "ficheall"
}

Download raw JSONL data for ficheall meaning in Irish (4.3kB)

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  "msg": "unrecognized linkage prefix: (chessboard): clár fichille desc=chessboard rest=clár fichille cls=romanization cls2=romanization e1=True e2=False",
  "path": [
    "ficheall"
  ],
  "section": "Irish",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "ficheall",
  "trace": ""
}

{
  "called_from": "inflection/865",
  "msg": "inflection table: IF WITHOUT ELSE EVALS False: ficheall/Irish 'radical' base_tags=set()",
  "path": [
    "ficheall"
  ],
  "section": "Irish",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "ficheall",
  "trace": ""
}

{
  "called_from": "inflection/735",
  "msg": "inflection table: unrecognized header: 'lenition'",
  "path": [
    "ficheall"
  ],
  "section": "Irish",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "ficheall",
  "trace": ""
}

{
  "called_from": "inflection/735",
  "msg": "inflection table: unrecognized header: 'eclipsis'",
  "path": [
    "ficheall"
  ],
  "section": "Irish",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "ficheall",
  "trace": ""
}

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