fíad

• IPA^(key): [ɸʲiːa̯ð]

From Proto-Celtic *weidus, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁weydʰh₁-u-s.

fíad m

1. game, wild animals
2. deer
3. wasteland, wilderness
4. uncultivated land
5. a territory, land

• (deer): ag, oss, séd, sideng
• (game): selg
• (wasteland, wilderness): díthrub, fásach

• Irish: fia
• Manx: feeaih
• Scottish Gaelic: fiadh

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 fíad”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

From Proto-Celtic *wēdūi, dative singular of *weidos (“sight, presence”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“perceive, see”).

fíad (governs the dative, triggers lenition)

1. before (in time)
2. before (in space), in front of
   • 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. 19^b6

     Ro·pridchad dúib céssad Críst amal ad·cethe ꝉ fo·rócrad dúib amal bid fíadib no·crochthe.

     Christ’s Passion has been preached to you as though it were seen; or it has been announced to you as if he had been crucified before you.

• Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940) [1909] D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, translation of Handbuch des Alt-Irischen (in German), →ISBN, pages 274–75, 511; reprinted 2017
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 fíad”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language