fód

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See also: fod, FOD, fòd, föd, főd, and fød

Irish

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Old Irish fót, of unknown origin. MacBain tentatively reconstructs a Proto-Celtic *wontos,[2] but with no cognates outside Goidelic or plausible Indo-European etymology, that is mere speculation.

Noun

fód m (genitive singular fóid, nominative plural fóid or fóda)

  1. sod
  2. strip of soil
  3. layer of sods
  4. layer of earth
  5. spot (of ground), place
  6. piece, chunk
Declension
Declension of fód

First declension

Bare forms:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative fód fóid
Vocative a fhóid a fhóda
Genitive fóid fód
Dative fód fóid

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an fód na fóid
Genitive an fhóid na bhfód
Dative leis an bhfód

don fhód

leis na fóid

Derived terms

Further reading

Etymology 2

See faoi, do.

Contraction

fód

  1. (dialectal) Contraction of fó do (“under/about your sg”).

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
fód fhód bhfód
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

  1. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 52, page 28
  2. ^ MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “fód”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language‎, Stirling, →ISBN
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