fuílleach

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Irish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Middle Irish fuidlech.[2] By surface analysis, fuíoll +‎ -ach.

Noun

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fuílleach m (genitive singular fuílligh, nominative plural fuílligh)

  1. remainder, remnant, residue, residual, (the) rest
  2. surplus, plenty, more than enough
  3. scraps, leavings, refuse
  4. (arithmetic) remainder (amount left over after repeatedly subtracting the divisor)
  5. remnant (remaining fabric)
  6. (law) residue (property or effects remaining in an estate)
  7. (accounting) balance (difference between credit and debit)
  8. (chemistry) residuum (solid material remaining after evaporation)

Declension

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Derived terms

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Mutation

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Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
fuílleach fhuílleach bhfuílleach
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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  1. ^ fuílleach”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “fuidlech”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Further reading

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