Irish edit

Etymology edit

From Middle Irish feódaid, feódaigid, from feo (withered), from Proto-Celtic *wiwos (withered) (whence also Welsh gwyw), from Proto-Indo-European *weyh₁- (to wither) (compare Latin viēscō (to wilt), Old Norse visinn (wilted), Lithuanian výsti (to wither))[1]

Pronunciation edit

Verb edit

feoigh (present analytic feonn, future analytic feofaidh, verbal noun feo, past participle feoite)

  1. to decay, wither, rot

Conjugation edit

Alternative verbal noun: feochan

Mutation edit

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
feoigh fheoigh bhfeoigh
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References edit

  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*wiwo-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN

Further reading edit