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

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
foich	fhoich	bhfoich
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
foich	ḟoich	foich pronounced with /β(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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