Irish edit

Etymology edit

From Middle Irish úaigid, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pewǵ- (to prick).[1]

Pronunciation edit

Verb edit

fuaigh (present analytic fuann, future analytic fuafaidh, verbal noun fuáil, past participle fuaite)

  1. (transitive, intransitive) sew, stitch (join by sewing)

Conjugation edit

Related terms edit

  • uaim (to join together)

Mutation edit

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
fuaigh fhuaigh bhfuaigh
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References edit

  1. ^ Stüber, Karin (1998) The Historical Morphology of n-Stems in Celtic (Maynooth studies in Celtic linguistics; III), Department of Old Irish, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, →ISBN, page 77

Further reading edit