fáiltigh

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Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish fáiltigid.[1] By surface analysis, fáilte +‎ -igh.

Verb

fáiltigh (present analytic fáiltíonn, future analytic fáilteoidh, verbal noun fáiltiú, past participle fáiltithe)

  1. (literary) to rejoice
  2. (with roimh) to welcome
    • 1939, Peig Sayers, “Inghean an Cheannaidhe”, in Marie-Louise Sjoestedt, Description d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (Bibliothèque de l'École des Hautes Études; 270) (overall work in French), Paris: Librairie Honoré Champion, page 193:
      Níor bh’fhada i n-a dhiaidh sin gur tháinig an long chun cuain agus do tháinig an captaen óg go dtí an tig; ach ní raibh an ceannaidhe roimis, ach mara raibh bhí Máire Bhán roimis agus do fháiltigh sí roimis mar ba chóir.
      It was not long after this that the ship came to harbor and the young captain came to the house; but the merchant was not there , but if he was not, Máire Bhán was there and she welcomed him as it was fitting.

Conjugation

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
fáiltigh fháiltigh bhfáiltigh
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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

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