foraois

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Irish

FWOTD – 31 July 2024

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Irish foraís, from Anglo-Norman forest, from Early Medieval Latin forestis.

Pronunciation

Noun

foraois f (genitive singular foraoise, nominative plural foraoisí or foraoiseacha)

  1. forest, timber
    • 2007, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, translated by Breandán Ó Doibhlin, An Prionsa Beag, Dublin: Read Ireland, →ISBN, page 1:
      Nuair a bhí mé sé bliana d’aois, chonaic mé, uair amháin, pictiúr iontach i leabhar i dtaobh na foraoise darbh ainm “Scéalta fíora.”
      Once when I was six years old, I saw a wonderful picture in a book about the forest called “True stories.”
  2. retreat, recess; lair, den

Declension

Declension of foraois

Second declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative foraois foraoisí
Vocative a fhoraois a fhoraoisí
Genitive foraoise foraoisí
Dative foraois foraoisí

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an fhoraois na foraoisí
Genitive na foraoise na bhforaoisí
Dative leis an bhforaois

don fhoraois

leis na foraoisí

Derived terms

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
foraois fhoraois bhforaois
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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