Scottish Gaelic edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

From Old Irish foditnech. By surface analysis, foighidinn +‎ -ach.

Pronunciation edit

Adjective edit

foighidneach (genitive singular masculine foighidnich, comparative foighidniche)

  1. patient
    Antonym: mì-fhoighidneach

Mutation edit

Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical Lenition
foighidneach fhoighidneach
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading edit

  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “foighidneach”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “foditnech”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language