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fáilid

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Old Irish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Pronunciation

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Adjective

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fáilid

  1. happy, glad, joyful
    • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 107a15
      Bid sochaide a·trefea indiutsiu ⁊ bid fáilid nach oín adid·trefea.
      There will be many who will dwell in thee, and every one will be joyful who will so dwell.
      (literally, “…who will dwell it”)
    • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 129c8
      in tan ṁberes claind, is fáilid íar sin
      when she bears children, she is joyous after that

Inflection

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i-stem
Singular Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative fáilid fáilid fáilid
Vocative fáilid
Accusative fáilid fáilid
Genitive fáilid fáilte fáilid
Dative fáilid fáilid fáilid
Plural Masculine Feminine/neuter
Nominative fáilti fáilti
Vocative fáilti
Accusative fáilti
Genitive fáilid*
fáilte
Dative fáiltib
Notes *not when substantivized

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Irish: fáilí
  • Scottish Gaelic: faoilidh (liberal, hospitable)

Mutation

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Mutation of fáilid
radical lenition nasalization
fáilid ḟáilid fáilid
pronounced with /β(ʲ)-/

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

Further reading

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