fliuchaide

Old Irish

Etymology

From fliuch (“wet”) +‎ -de.

Adjective

fliuchaide

1. damp, moist
   • c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 73^a1

     inna fliuchaide glosses humidorum

Derived terms

• flichidecht f (“wet, moisture”)
• fliuchaidetu m (“wetness”)

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
fliuchaide	ḟliuchaide	fliuchaide 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), “fliuchaide”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language