fuath

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Irish

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Old Irish fúath, úath (likeness, form).[3]

Noun

fuath m (genitive singular fuatha, nominative plural fuathanna or fuatha)

  1. (literary) form, shape
  2. phantom, spectre
Declension
Alternative declension

Etymology 2

From Middle Irish fúath (hatred, abhorrence), from Old Irish úath (horror).[4][5] Doublet of uath (horror).

Noun

fuath m (genitive singular fuatha)

  1. hate, hatred (with do or ar + the person or thing hated)
    fuath agam don áit sin.I hate that place.
    fuath agam ar an áit sin.I hate that place.
Declension
Derived terms

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
fuath fhuath bhfuath
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, § 209, page 105
  2. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 67, page 29
  3. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 fúath”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  4. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 fúath”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  5. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 úath”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Further reading

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Middle Irish fúath (hatred, abhorrence), from Old Irish úath (horror).[1][2]

Pronunciation

Noun

fuath m (genitive singular fuatha, plural fuathan)

  1. antipathy, hate, hatred
  2. abhorrence, loathing
  3. enmity, odium

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutation of fuath
radical lenition
fuath fhuath

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 fúath”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 úath”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Further reading

  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “fuath”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN