foít

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Old Irish

Etymology

From the stem of foídid +‎ -ad. Regularly, *foídiud would be expected. When a prospective genitive singular *foíteo underwent syncope, the noun was reformed with its stem, foít.

Noun

foít m (genitive unattested)

  1. verbal noun of foídid: sending
    • 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. 15a15
      .i. torisse leis ar fóit fortechtairechta ɫ. is hé fod·ruar.
      i.e. suitable for him to send on missions; or it is He who caused it.

Inflection

Masculine u-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative foít — —
Vocative foít — —
Accusative foítN — —
Genitive foíteoH, foíteaH — —
Dative foítL — —
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Mutation

Mutation of foít
radical lenition nasalization
foít ḟoít foít
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.

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