fáith

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See also: faith and Faith

Old Irish

FWOTD – 7 September 2014

Alternative forms

fáid

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *wātis (compare Gaulish uatis, Welsh gwawd (“poem”)), from Proto-Indo-European *wéh₂tis, from *weh₂t- (“possessed, excited”). Cognate with Latin vātēs (“poet, seer”), Old English wōd (“poetry, inspiration”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

fáith m (genitive fátho, nominative plural fáithi)

(paganism) seer, soothsayer
(Christianity) prophet
- c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 13^d23
  fírfidir a n-as·rubart in fáith
  what the prophet has said will be verified
- 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. 38^c3
  Ní hé apstal cita·rogab in testimin so. Aliter: Ní fóu da·uc int apstal fon chéill fuand·rogab in fáith.
  It is not (the) apostle who first uttered this text. Otherwise: The apostle did not apply it in the sense in which the prophet uttered it.

Inflection

Masculine i-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	fáith	fáith^L	fáithi^H
Vocative	fáith	fáith^L	fáithi^H
Accusative	fáith^N	fáith^L	fáithi^H
Genitive	fátho^H, fátha^H	fátho^H, fátha^H	fáithe^N
Dative	fáith^L	fáithib	fáithib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: ^H = triggers aspiration ^L = triggers lenition ^N = triggers nasalization

Derived terms

fáithsine (“prophecy”)

Descendants

Irish: fáidh

Mutation

Mutation of *fáith*
radical	lenition	nasalization
fáith	ḟáith	fáith pronounced with /β(ʲ)-/

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

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

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