foít
Old Irish
editEtymology
editFrom the stem of foídid + -ad. Regularly, *foídiud would be expected. When a prospective genitive singular *foíteo underwent syncope, the noun was reformed with its stem, foít.
Noun
editfoít m (genitive unattested)
- verbal noun of foídid: sending
- c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 15a15
- .i. torisse leis ar fóit fortechtairechta ɫ. is hé fod·ruar.
- i.e. suitable for him to send on missions; or it is He who caused it.
- c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 15a15
Inflection
editMasculine u-stem | |||
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Singular | Dual | Plural | |
Nominative | foít | — | — |
Vocative | foít | — | — |
Accusative | foítN | — | — |
Genitive | foíteoH, foíteaH | — | — |
Dative | foítL | — | — |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Mutation
editOld Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
foít | ḟoít | foít pronounced with /β(ʲ)-/ |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading
edit- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “foít”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language