fuath

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fˠuə/

Etymology 1

From Old Irish fúath, úath (“likeness, form, semblance; a hideous or supernatural form, a spectre, apparition, monster”).

Noun

fuath m (genitive singular fuatha, nominative plural fuathanna or fuatha)

1. (literary) form, shape
2. phantom, spectre

Declension

Declension of fuath

Third declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative fuath fuathanna Vocative a fhuath a fhuathanna Genitive fuatha fuathanna Dative fuath fuathanna

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an fuath na fuathanna Genitive an fhuatha na bhfuathanna Dative leis an bhfuath don fhuath leis na fuathanna

Alternative declension

Declension of fuath

Third declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative fuath fuatha Vocative a fhuath a fhuatha Genitive fuatha fuath Dative fuath fuatha

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an fuath na fuatha Genitive an fhuatha na bhfuath Dative leis an bhfuath don fhuath leis na fuatha

Etymology 2

From Middle Irish fúath (“hatred, abhorrence”), from Old Irish úath (“horror”).

Noun

fuath m (genitive singular fuatha)

1. hate, hatred (with do or ar + the person or thing hated)

   Tá fuath agam don áit sin. ― I hate that place.

   Tá fuath agam ar an áit sin. ― I hate that place.

Declension

Declension of fuath

Third declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun) Case Singular Nominative fuath Vocative a fhuath Genitive fuatha Dative fuath

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Nominative an fuath Genitive an fhuatha Dative leis an bhfuath don fhuath

Derived terms

• fuafar, fuathúil (“hateful, hideous, odious”, adjective)
• fuath an mhadra m (“wolf’s bane”)
• fuath gorm m (“woody nightshade, bittersweet”)
• fuathaigh (“hate”, transitive verb)
• is fuath le (“hate”, verb)
• tabhair fuath do (“to turn against, forsake, come to dislike”)

 

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
fuath	fhuath	bhfuath
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “fuath”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 fúath”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 úath”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Middle Irish fúath (“hatred, abhorrence”), from Old Irish úath (“horror”).

Noun

fuath m (genitive singular fuatha, plural fuathan)

1. antipathy, hate, hatred
2. abhorrence, loathing
3. enmity, odium

Derived terms

• fuath bhan (“misogyny”)
• fuath dhaoine (“misanthropy”)
• fuath fhir (“misandry”)
• fuath-bìdh (“anorexia nervosa, food allergy”)
• fuath-dùinteachd
• fuathaich (“hate, detest, abhor, loathe; disgust”)

 

Mutation

Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical	Lenition
fuath	fhuath
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “fuath”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎^[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 fúath”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 úath”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language