foít
Old Irish
Etymology
From the stem of foídid + -ad. Regularly, *foídiud would be expected. When a prospective genitive singular *foíteo underwent syncope, the noun was reformed with its stem, foít.
Noun
foít m (genitive unattested)
- verbal noun of foídid: sending
- 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. 15a15
- .i. torisse leis ar fóit fortechtairechta ɫ. is hé fod·ruar.
- i.e. suitable for him to send on missions; or it is He who caused it.
- 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. 15a15
Inflection
| singular | dual | plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | foít | — | — |
| vocative | foít | — | — |
| accusative | foítN | — | — |
| genitive | foíteoH, foíteaH | — | — |
| dative | foítL | — | — |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
- H = triggers aspiration
- L = triggers lenition
- N = triggers nasalization
Mutation
| radical | lenition | nasalization |
|---|---|---|
| foít | ḟoít | foít pronounced with /β̃-/ |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Further reading
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “foít”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language