fáistine
Irish edit
Etymology edit
From Middle Irish fáistine, from Old Irish fáithsine.
Noun edit
fáistine f (genitive singular fáistine, nominative plural fáistiní)
- (act of) prophesying; prophecy, soothsaying; divination
Declension edit
Declension of fáistine
Bare forms
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Forms with the definite article
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Derived terms edit
- bean fáistine (“futurist”)
- déan fáistine (“foretell”, verb)
- fáistineach (“future”, adjective)
- fáistineach m (“future (tense)”)
- fáistineacht f (“fortune-telling”)
- fáistinigh (“prophesy”, verb)
- fear fáistine (“futurist”)
- fios fáistine (“clairvoyance”)
Mutation edit
Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
fáistine | fháistine | bhfáistine |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading edit
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “fáistine”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Entries containing “fáistine” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “fáistine”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 295
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “fáitsine, fáithsine”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Entries containing “fáistine” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.