foít

Old Irish

Etymology

From the stem of foídid +‎ -ad. Regularly, *foídiud would be expected. When a prospective genitive singular *foíteo underwent syncope, the noun was reformed with its stem, foít.

Noun

foít m (genitive unattested)

1. verbal noun of foídid: sending
   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 15^a15

     .i. torisse leis ar fóit fortechtairechta ɫ. is hé fod·ruar.

     i.e. suitable for him to send on missions; or it is He who caused it.

Inflection

Masculine u-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	foít	—	—
Vocative	foít	—	—
Accusative	foítN	—	—
Genitive	foíteoH, foíteaH	—	—
Dative	foítL	—	—
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Mutation

Mutation of foít

radical	lenition	nasalization
foít	ḟoít	foít 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.

Further reading

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