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From Middle Irish forad (“mound, platform”);[2] cognate with Scottish Gaelic faradh. Doublet of fara.
foradh m (genitive singular foraidh, nominative plural foraidh)
- (literary) roost, elevated seat, loft
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
- ^ “foradh”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “forad”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 9, page 7
