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Irish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle Irish ethait, from Old Irish ethait. The initial f- is prothetic and unetymological.
Noun
[edit]feithid f (genitive singular feithide, nominative plural feithidí)
- tiny creature, insect, bug
- (figuratively) puny, insignificant, person
- wild creature, beast
- repulsive creature, adder, serpent
Declension
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Derived terms
[edit]- feithideolaí
- feithideolaíoch
- feithideolaíocht
- feithidicíd, feithidnimh (“insecticide”)
- feithiditeach (“insectivorous”)
- feithiditeoir (“insectivore”)
Mutation
[edit]radical | lenition | eclipsis |
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feithid | fheithid | bhfeithid |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Further reading
[edit]- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “feithid”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “feithid”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- “feithid”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024
Old Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Celtic *weteti, from Proto-Indo-European *wet- (“to turn to, be acquainted with”). Cognate with Proto-Indo-Iranian *watáti (“to be familiar with”).[1]
Verb
[edit]feithid (conjunct ·fethi, verbal noun fethem)
- to watch
- c. 700 Immram Brain, published in The Voyage of Bran son of Febal to the land of the living (1895, London: David Nutt), pp. 1-35, edited and with translations by Kuno Meyer and Alfred Nutt, stanza 49
- In delb é no·fethi-su…
- This shape, he on whom thou lookest…
- c. 700 Immram Brain, published in The Voyage of Bran son of Febal to the land of the living (1895, London: David Nutt), pp. 1-35, edited and with translations by Kuno Meyer and Alfred Nutt, stanza 49
Inflection
[edit]Simple, class A II present, s preterite
1st sg. | 2nd sg. | 3rd sg. | 1st pl. | 2nd pl. | 3rd pl. | Passive sg. | Passive pl. | ||
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Present indicative | Abs. | ||||||||
Conj. | ·fethi | ||||||||
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Imperfect indicative | ·feithed | ||||||||
Preterite | Abs. | ||||||||
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Perfect | Deut. | ron·fethis | |||||||
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Future | Abs. | ||||||||
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Present subjunctive | Abs. | ||||||||
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Past subjunctive | |||||||||
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Verbal noun | fethem | ||||||||
Past participle | |||||||||
Verbal of necessity |
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*wet-o-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 418, 419
Further reading
[edit]- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 fethid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Categories:
- Irish terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Irish terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *peth₂-
- Irish terms inherited from Middle Irish
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- Irish terms derived from Old Irish
- Irish lemmas
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- Irish second-declension nouns
- ga:Animals
- ga:Insects
- ga:People
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