foít

Old Irish edit

Etymology edit

From 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 edit

foít 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. 15^a15
  .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.

Inflection edit

Masculine u-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	foít	—	—
Vocative	foít	—	—
Accusative	foít^N	—	—
Genitive	foíteo^H, foítea^H	—	—
Dative	foít^L	—	—
Initial mutations of a following adjective: ^H = triggers aspiration ^L = triggers lenition ^N = triggers nasalization

Mutation edit

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
foít	ḟoít	foít pronounced with /v(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.