faiceall

Scottish Gaelic

Alternative forms

• faicill

Etymology

From Middle Irish foichell, from Old Irish fochell (“anticipating, preparing for”).

Noun

faiceall f or m

1. care, caution, discretion

Derived terms

• faiceallach
• mì-fhaiceallachd
• mì-fhaicill

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “fochell”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language