fás
Irish
Pronunciation
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Etymology 1
From Old Irish ásaid and its verbal noun ás (“growing, growth”). The f comes from the reinterpretation of ás- as fhás- in lenition environments.
Verb
fás (present analytic fásann, future analytic fásfaidh, verbal noun fás, past participle fásta)
Conjugation
* indirect relative
† archaic or dialect form
‡ dependent form
‡‡ dependent form used with particles that trigger eclipsis
Noun
fás m (genitive singular as substantive fáis, genitive as verbal noun fásta, nominative plural fáis)
Declension
As verbal noun:
Bare forms (no plural of this noun)
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Forms with the definite article:
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As substantive:
Synonyms
Etymology 2
From Old Irish fás (“empty, void, (of places) vacant, deserted, uninhabited, waste”), from Proto-Celtic *wāstos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁weh₂-sto- from *h₁weh₂-.
Adjective
fás (genitive singular masculine fáis, genitive singular feminine fáise, plural fása, comparative fáise)
Declension
Singular | Plural (m/f) | |||
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Positive | Masculine | Feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
Nominative | fás | fhás | fása; fhása² | |
Vocative | fháis | fása | ||
Genitive | fáse | fása | fás | |
Dative | fás; fhás¹ |
fhás; fháis (archaic) |
fása; fhása² | |
Comparative | níos fáse | |||
Superlative | is fáse |
¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.
Mutation
Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
fás | fhás | bhfás |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “fás”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “ásaid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 fás”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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