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