foighidneach

Scottish Gaelic

Alternative forms

  • faighidinneach, faighidneach, foighideach, foighidinneach

Etymology

From Old Irish foditnech. By surface analysis, foighidinn +‎ -ach.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfɤjɪtʲnəx/

Adjective

foighidneach (genitive singular masculine foighidnich, comparative foighidniche)

  1. patient
    Antonym: mì-fhoighidneach

Mutation

Mutation of foighidneach
radical lenition
foighidneach fhoighidneach

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

Further reading

  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “foighidneach”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “foditnech”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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