fostaigh

Irish

Alternative forms

  • astaigh, fastaigh
  • astuigh, fasdaigh, fasduigh, fastuigh, fosdaigh, fosduigh, fostuigh (obsolete)[1]
  • fastódh

Etymology

From Middle Irish fastaid, fostaid, fostaigid,[2] from Old Irish ·asstai, prototonic form of ad·suidi (stop, detain).[3] For the initial f- compare fuar, fás, féad.

Verb

fostaigh (present analytic fostaíonn, future analytic fostóidh, verbal noun fostú, past participle fostaithe) (ambitransitive)

  1. catch, hold fast, grip
  2. engage, retain in service; hire, employ

Conjugation

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of fostaigh
radical lenition eclipsis
fostaigh fhostaigh bhfostaigh

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

References

  1. ^ fostaigh”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “fostaid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “ad·suidi”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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