fliuchaide

Old Irish

Etymology

From fliuch (“wet”) +‎ -de.

Adjective

fliuchaide

1. damp, moist
   • c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 73^a1

     inna fliuchaide glosses humidorum

Derived terms

• flichidecht f (“wet, moisture”)
• fliuchaidetu m (“wetness”)

Mutation

Mutation of fliuchaide

radical	lenition	nasalization
fliuchaide	ḟliuchaide	fliuchaide 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), “fliuchaide”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language