fáilte

From Middle Irish fáilte, from Old Irish fáilte,^[1] from Proto-Celtic *wāletiyā, from Proto-Indo-European *welh₁-.

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /ˈfˠɑːlʲtʲə/^[2]
• (Connacht) IPA^(key): /ˈfˠɑːlʲtʲə/, /ˈfˠɑːl̠ʲtʲə/^[3]
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈfˠaːl̠ʲtʲə/

fáilte f (genitive singular fáilte, nominative plural fáiltí)

1. A welcome (with roimh plus the person being welcomed)

   Bhí fáilte is fiche aige romham.

   He had a great welcome for me (lit. ‘He had 21 welcomes before me’)

   D’fhear sí fáilte romhainn.

   She welcomed us (lit. ‘She provided a welcome before us’)

2. (archaic) delight, joy

• fáilteachas m (“welcoming, welcoming manner”)

fáilte

1. Welcome!

• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “fáilte”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 293
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “fáilte”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “fáilte”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “fáilte”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024
• “fáilte”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy

From Old Irish fáilte, from Proto-Celtic *wāletiyā.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɸaːl͈ʲtʲə/

fáilte f

1. welcome
   • c. 1000, “The Tale of Mac Da Thó's Pig”, in Ernst Windisch, editor, Irische Texte, volume 1, published 1800, section 1:

     Ro·ferad failte friu uile, ocus ructha chuci-sium isin mbruidin.

     They were all made welcome and brought to him in the hall.

     (literally, “A welcome was provided to them all…”)

• Irish: fáilte
• Manx: failt
• Scottish Gaelic: fàilte

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “fáilte, faílte”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

• faílte

From Proto-Celtic *wāletiyā. By surface analysis, fáilid +‎ -e.

Cognate with Old English wele, wela, willan (“to wish”), Latin volō (“to want”).(Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

• IPA^(key):

fáilte f

1. joy, happiness
   • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 92^a17

     Bed indbadigthi .i. bed chuintechti .i. cid fáilte ad·cot-sa ⁊ du·ngnéu, is túsu immid·folngi dam, a Dǽ; cid indeb dano ad·cot, is tú, Dǽ, immid·folngi dam.

     To be enriched, i.e. to be sought, i.e. though it is joy that I obtain and make, it is you who effects it for me, O God; so too, though it is wealth that I obtain, it is you, God, who effects it for me.

2. salute
3. welcome

• Middle Irish: fáilte
  • Irish: fáilte
  • Manx: failt
  • Scottish Gaelic: fàilte

fáilte

1. inflection of fáilid:
   1. feminine genitive singular
   2. all genders genitive plural

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “fáilte, faílte”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language