fíado

See also: fiado

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• féda, fíada

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *wēdonts, a present participle formation of *windeti, from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“to see, know”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈfʲiːa̯.ðo]

Noun

fíado m (genitive fíadat)

1. lord
2. owner
3. (by extension) God, the Lord

Inflection

Masculine nt-stem

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	fíado	fíadaitL	fíadait
vocative	fíado	fíadaitL	fíadta
accusative	fíadaitN	fíadaitL	fíadta
genitive	fíadat	fíadatL	fíadatN
dative	fíadaitL	fíadtaib	fíadtaib

Initial mutations of a following adjective:

• ^H = triggers aspiration
• ^L = triggers lenition
• ^N = triggers nasalization

Mutation

Mutation of fíado

radical	lenition	nasalization
fíado	ḟíado	fíado 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.

References

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “fíada”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language