foídid

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *woidīti, from Proto-Indo-European *woydéyeti, causative of *weyd- (“to see”). Cognate with Sanskrit वेदयति (vedayati, “announce”) and Proto-Germanic *waitijaną (“to cause to know, to show”).

Verb

foídid (conjunct ·foídi, verbal noun foít)

1. to send

Inflection

Simple, class A II present, s preterite, f future, a subjunctive

		1st sg	2nd sg	3rd sg	1st pl	2nd pl	3rd pl	passive sg	passive pl
present indicative	abs.						foídit	foítir	foíditir
	conj.	·foidiu		·foidi
	rel.			*foides			foíte	foíter
imperfect indicative								·foite
preterite	abs.			foídis
	conj.
	rel.
perfect	deut.			ro·foídi				ro·foíded	ro·foítea
	prot.
future	abs.			foídfid; foídfidius (with suffixed pronoun -us)				foídfidir
	conj.
	rel.
conditional
present subjunctive	abs.
	conj.	·foíd							·foíter
	rel.
past subjunctive								·foíte
imperative
verbal noun		foít
past participle
verbal of necessity

Derived terms

• do·foídi

Further reading

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