foithir

See also: fo-ithir

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• fothair
• fuither

Etymology

Possibly from fo + tír.

Noun

foithir m (genitive foithir)

1. a piece of unreclaimed valley or wooded land

Inflection

Masculine o-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	foithir, fuithir	foithirL, fuithir	foithirL, fuithir
Vocative	foithir, fuithir	foithirL, fuithir	fuithriuH
Accusative	foithirN, fuithir	foithirL, fuithir	fuithriuH
Genitive	foithirL, fuithir	foithir, fuithir	foithirN, fuithir
Dative	fo(i)thiurL	foithrib	foithrib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

• Irish: fothair

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
foithir	ḟoithir	foithir pronounced with /β(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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