friotháil

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Irish fris·áilethar.

Verb

friotháil (present analytic friothálann, future analytic friothálfaidh, verbal noun friotháil, past participle friotháilte)

  1. to serve, minister
    • 1894 March, Peadar Mac Fionnlaoigh, “An rí nach robh le fagháil bháis”, in Irisleabhar na Gaedhilge, volume 1:5, Dublin: Gaelic Union, pages 185–88:
      Bhí sagart ar an altóir ⁊ d’fhiafruigh sé an robh an duine annsin a dhéanfadh Aifrionn a fhritheóladh.
      There was a priest on the altar, and he asked if there was anybody there to serve Mass.

Conjugation

Noun

friotháil f (genitive singular as substantive friothála, genitive as verbal noun friotháilte)

  1. verbal noun of friotháil
  2. service, ministration

Declension

Declension of friotháil (third declension, no plural)
bare forms
singular
nominative friotháil
vocative a fhriotháil
genitive friothála
dative friotháil
forms with the definite article
singular
nominative an fhriotháil
genitive na friothála
dative leis an bhfriotháil
don fhriotháil

Mutation

Mutated forms of friotháil
radical lenition eclipsis
friotháil fhriotháil bhfriotháil

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

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