fáiltigh
Irish
editEtymology
editFrom Old Irish fáiltigid.[1] By surface analysis, fáilte + -igh.
Verb
editfáiltigh (present analytic fáiltíonn, future analytic fáilteoidh, verbal noun fáiltiú, past participle fáiltithe)
- (literary) to rejoice
- (with roimh) to welcome
- 1939, Peig Sayers, “Inghean an Cheannaidhe”, in Marie-Louise Sjoestedt, Description d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (Bibliothèque de l'École des Hautes Études; 270) (overall work in French), Paris: Librairie Honoré Champion, page 193:
- Níor bh’fhada i n-a dhiaidh sin gur tháinig an long chun cuain agus do tháinig an captaen óg go dtí an tig; ach ní raibh an ceannaidhe roimis, ach mara raibh bhí Máire Bhán roimis agus do fháiltigh sí roimis mar ba chóir.
- It was not long after this that the ship came to harbor and the young captain came to the house; but the merchant was not there [lit. ‘was not before him’], but if he was not, Máire Bhán was there [lit. ‘was before him’] and she welcomed him as it was fitting.
Conjugation
editconjugation of fáiltigh (second conjugation)
* indirect relative
† archaic or dialect form
‡ dependent form
‡‡ dependent form used with particles that trigger eclipsis
Mutation
editIrish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
fáiltigh | fháiltigh | bhfáiltigh |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References
edit- ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “fáiltigid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Further reading
edit- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “fáiltiġim”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 293
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “fáiltigh”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “fáiltigh”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- “fáiltigh”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024
- “fáiltigh”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy