feoigh

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish feódaid, feódaigid, from feo (withered), from Proto-Celtic *wiwos (withered) (whence also Welsh gwyw), from Proto-Indo-European *weyh₁- (to wither) (compare Latin viēscō (to wilt), Old Norse visinn (wilted), Lithuanian výsti (to wither))[1]

Pronunciation

Verb

feoigh (present analytic feonn, future analytic feofaidh, verbal noun feo, past participle feoite)

  1. to decay, wither, rot

Conjugation

Alternative verbal noun: feochan

Mutation

Mutated forms of feoigh
radical lenition eclipsis
feoigh fheoigh bhfeoigh

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

References

  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*wiwo-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN

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