fáith
Old Irish
Alternative forms
Etymology
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From Proto-Celtic *wātis (compare Gaulish uatis, Welsh gwawd (“poem”)), from Proto-Indo-European *wéh₂tis, from *weh₂t- (“possessed, excited”) (compare Latin vātēs, Old English wōd (“inspiration”)).
Pronunciation
Noun
fáith m (genitive fátho, nominative plural fáithi)
- (paganism) seer, soothsayer
- (Christianity) prophet
- 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. 13d23
- fírfidir a n-as·rubart in fáith
- what the prophet has said will be verified
- fírfidir a n-as·rubart in fáith
- 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. 13d23
Inflection
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Derived terms
- fáithsine (“prophecy”)
Descendants
- Irish: fáidh
Mutation
Old Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
fáith | ḟáith | fáith pronounced with /β(ʲ)-/ |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “fáith, fáid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Categories:
- Old Irish terms inherited from Proto-Celtic
- Old Irish terms derived from Proto-Celtic
- Old Irish terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European
- Old Irish terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Old Irish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Old Irish lemmas
- Old Irish nouns
- Old Irish masculine nouns
- sga:Paganism
- sga:Christianity