frae
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Irish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From early modern double preposition fa ré (“along with”), from fa and ré (< Old Irish fri).[1][2] Compare fara (used in Munster) and froisin (“too, also”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Cois Fharraige) IPA(key): /fˠɾˠeː/
Preposition
[edit]frae (plus dative, triggers h-prothesis)
Usage notes
[edit]In Connacht dialects common in fraena chéile, frae chéile (“together”) instead of le chéile.
Inflection
[edit]Inflection of frae
Person | Normal | Emphatic |
---|---|---|
1st person sing. | frum, friom | frum, friomsa |
2d person sing. | frat, friot | fratsa, friotsa |
3d sing. masc. | frois, freis | frois-sean, freis-sean |
3d sing. fem. | frae, fria, fréithe, froithi | friasa, fréithese, froithise |
1st person pl. | fruinn, frinn, froinn | fruinne, frinne, froinne |
2d person pl. | fraoib, froibh, fribh | fraoib, froibh, fribhse |
3d person pl. | frób, freo, freob | freosan, freobsan |
References
[edit]- ^ T. F. O’Rahilly (1941) “Introduction”, in Flaithrí Ó Maolchonaire, Desiderius, otherwise called Sgáthán an chrábhaidh[1], Dublin, page xxxvi
- ^ Damian McManus (1994) “An Nua-Ghaeilge Chlasaiceach”, in K. McCone, D. McManus, C. Ó Háinle, N. Williams, L. Breatnach, editors, Stair na Gaeilge: in ómós do P[h]ádraig Ó Fiannachta (in Irish), Maynooth: Roinn na Sean-Ghaeilge, Coláiste Phádraig, →ISBN, §10.2, page 434
Further reading
[edit]- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “faré, fare”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1977) Gaeilge Chois Fhairrge: An Deilbhíocht (in Irish), 2nd edition, Institiúid Ard-Léinn Bhaile Átha Cliath [Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies], § 306
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927) “fré”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society – but note ‘many errors in Dinneen’s treatment of the word’[1]
Scots
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Preposition
[edit]frae
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