fíado

See also: fiado

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• féda, fíada

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *wēdonts, a present participle formation of *windeti, from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“to see, know”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈfʲiːa̯.ðo]

Noun

fíado m (genitive fíadat)

1. lord
2. owner
3. (by extension) God, the Lord

Inflection

Masculine nt-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	fíado	fíadaitL	fíadait
Vocative	fíado	fíadaitL	fíadta
Accusative	fíadaitN	fíadaitL	fíadta
Genitive	fíadat	fíadatL	fíadatN
Dative	fíadaitL	fíadtaib	fíadtaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
fíado	ḟíado	fíado 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), “fíada”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language