fadaigh

Irish

Etymology 1

From Middle Irish fataigid, from Old Irish ad·daí.[1]

Alternative forms

Verb

fadaigh (present analytic fadaíonn, future analytic fadóidh, verbal noun fadú, past participle fadaithe) (ambitransitive)

  1. to set, kindle (of fire)
  2. to build up, incite
  3. to set up, erect
Conjugation

Further reading

Etymology 2

From Middle Irish fotaigid, fataigid (to lengthen, prolong).[2] By surface analysis, fada (long) +‎ -igh (verbal suffix).

Alternative forms

Verb

fadaigh (present analytic fadaíonn, future analytic fadóidh, verbal noun fadú, past participle fadaithe)

  1. (intransitive) to lengthen, extend, prolong
Conjugation

Further reading

  • Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927) “faduiġim”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 413; reprinted with additions 1996, →ISBN
  • Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “fadaigh”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

Mutation

Mutated forms of fadaigh
radical lenition eclipsis
fadaigh fhadaigh bhfadaigh

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “ad-daí”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “fotaigid, fataigid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language