foich

Irish

Noun

foich f (genitive singular foiche, nominative plural foichí)

1. Alternative form of foiche (“wasp”)

Declension

Declension of foich (second declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative foich foichí vocative a fhoich a fhoichí genitive foiche foichí dative foich foichí forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an fhoich na foichí genitive na foiche na bhfoichí dative leis an bhfoich don fhoich leis na foichí

Mutation

Mutated forms of foich

radical	lenition	eclipsis
foich	fhoich	bhfoich

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Old Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from Proto-Brythonic *gwüxī, from Proto-Celtic *woxsī, from Proto-Indo-European *wóps.

Noun

foich f (genitive focha, nominative plural foichi)

1. wasp
2. cankerworm

Inflection

Feminine i-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	foich	foichL	foichiH
Vocative	foich	foichL	foichiH
Accusative	foichN	foichL	foichiH
Genitive	fochoH, fochaH	fochoH, fochaH	foicheN
Dative	foichL	foichib	foichib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

• Middle Irish: foich
  • Irish: foiche (“wasp”)

Mutation

Mutation of foich

radical	lenition	nasalization
foich	ḟoich	foich 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), “1 foich”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language