foigde

Old Irish

Etymology

From fo- +‎ guide.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfoɣʲ.ðʲe/

Noun

foigde f

1. verbal noun of fo·guid: begging
   • 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. 25^c19

     .i. in n-áis déed caras foigdi cáich.

     i.e. the lazy folk that love to beg of everyone.

   • 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. 31^b23

     leiscc .i. fri fognam, gréssich foigde na pronn.

     sluggish, i.e. at service, constant in begging for dinners.

Inflection

Feminine iā-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	foigdeL	foigdiL	foigdi
Vocative	foigdeL	foigdiL	foigdi
Accusative	foigdiN	foigdiL	foigdi
Genitive	foigde	foigdeL	foigdeN
Dative	foigdiL	foigdib	foigdib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Mutation

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

Further reading

• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “foigde, faigde”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language