fáilid

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• faílid

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɸaːlʲiðʲ]

Adjective

fáilid

1. happy, glad, joyful
   • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 107^a15

     Bid sochaide a·trefea indiutsiu ⁊ bid fáilid nach oín adid·trefea.

     There will be many who will dwell in thee, and every one will be joyful who will so dwell.

     (literally, “…who will dwell it”)

   • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 129^c8

     in tan ṁberes claind, is fáilid íar sin

     when she bears children, she is joyous after that

Inflection

i-stem
Singular	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	fáilid	fáilid	fáilid
Vocative	fáilid
Accusative	fáilid	fáilid
Genitive	fáilid	fáilte	fáilid
Dative	fáilid	fáilid	fáilid
Plural	Masculine	Feminine/neuter
Nominative	fáilti	fáilti
Vocative	fáilti
Accusative	fáilti
Genitive	fáilid* fáilte
Dative	fáiltib
Notes	*not when substantivized

Derived terms

• fáilte

Descendants

• Irish: fáilí
• Scottish Gaelic: faoilidh (“liberal, hospitable”)

Mutation

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

Further reading

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