foid

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See also: fòid

English

Etymology 1

Noun

foid (plural foids)

  1. (geology, colloquial) Clipping of feldspathoid.
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Noun

foid (plural foids)

  1. (incel slang, derogatory, offensive) Clipping of femoid.
    • 2021 July 21, Michael Levenson, “‘Incel’ Is Charged With Plotting to Shoot Women, U.S. Says”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
      Mr. Genco posted on an incel website that he had also shot couples and “foids” — short for “femoids,” an incel term for women — with orange juice from a water gun, which made him feel “spiritually connected to the saint on that day,” according to the indictment.
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Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *woseti.

Pronunciation

Verb

foïd (verbal noun fess)

  1. to spend the night
    • c. 750-800 Tairired na nDessi from Rawlinson B 502, published in "The Expulsion of the Dessi", Y Cymmrodor (1901, Society of Cymmrodorion), edited and with translations by Kuno Meyer, vol. 14, pp. 104-135, paragraph 3
      Is desin ro·gníd Ocheill for Temraig sechtair .i. clasa ráth la Cormac, conid inte no·foíhed-som do grés, ar ni ba hada rí co n-anim do feis i Temraig.
      Hence Achaill was built by the side of Tara, that is to say a ringfort was dug by Cormac in which he would always sleep, as it was not lawful for a king with a blemish to sleep in Tara.

Conjugation

Simple, class A III present, reduplicated preterite, f future, a subjunctive
active passive
singular plural singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
present indicative abs. foaid, foíd, faid fooit
conj. ·foí ·foat, ·faat, ·faeat
rel. foas foite
imperfect indicative ·foíed, ·foad, ·foíhed
preterite abs. fíu féotar
conj.
rel.
perfect deut.
prot. ·roae
future abs. fíba fibait
conj. ·fifa, ·fifea, ·faíbea ·fifam, ·faifem ·fíbaid
rel. fibas
conditional
present subjunctive abs. ro·foasu (ro-form) ro·faeem (ro-form)
conj. faei ·fia ·foet
rel.
past subjunctive ·fïad
imperative foí, fáe foad, foíedh foïd
verbal noun fess
past participle
verbal of necessity

Mutation

Mutation of foid
radical lenition nasalization
foïd ḟoïd foïd
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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