fáilte

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See also: failte and fàilte

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish fáilte, from Old Irish fáilte,[1] from Proto-Celtic *wāletiyā, from Proto-Indo-European *welh₁-.

Pronunciation

Noun

fáilte f (genitive singular fáilte, nominative plural fáiltí)

  1. A welcome (with roimh plus the person being welcomed)
    Bhí fáilte is fiche aige romham.
    He had a great welcome for me (lit. ‘He had 21 welcomes before me’)
    D’fhear sí fáilte romhainn.
    She welcomed us (lit. ‘She provided a welcome before us’)
  2. (archaic) delight, joy

Declension

Declension of fáilte (fourth declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative fáilte fáiltí
vocative a fháilte a fháiltí
genitive fáilte fáiltí
dative fáilte fáiltí
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an fháilte na fáiltí
genitive na fáilte na bhfáiltí
dative leis an bhfáilte
don fháilte
leis na fáiltí

Derived terms

Interjection

fáilte

  1. Welcome!

Mutation

Mutated forms of fáilte
radical lenition eclipsis
fáilte fháilte bhfáilte

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

References

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “fáilte, faílte”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 80, page 43
  3. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 105

Further reading

Middle Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish fáilte, from Proto-Celtic *wāletiyā.

Pronunciation

Noun

fáilte f

  1. welcome
    • c. 1000, “The Tale of Mac Da Thó's Pig”, in Ernst Windisch, editor, Irische Texte, volume 1, published 1800, section 1:
      Ro·ferad failte friu uile, ocus ructha chuci-sium isin mbruidin.
      They were all made welcome and brought to him in the hall.
      (literally, “A welcome was provided to them all…”)

Descendants

  • Irish: fáilte
  • Manx: failt
  • Scottish Gaelic: fàilte

Mutation

Mutation of fáilte
radical lenition nasalization
fáilte ḟáilte fáilte
pronounced with /β(ʲ)-/

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

Further reading

Old Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *wāletiyā. By surface analysis, fáilid +‎ -e.

Cognate with Old English wele, wela, willan (to wish), Latin volō (to want).(Can this(+) etymology be sourced?)

Pronunciation

Noun

fáilte f

  1. joy, happiness
    • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 92a17
      Bed indbadigthi .i. bed chuintechti .i. cid fáilte ad·cot-sa ⁊ du·ngnéu, is túsu immid·folngi dam, a Dǽ; cid indeb dano ad·cot, is tú, Dǽ, immid·folngi dam.
      To be enriched, i.e. to be sought, i.e. though it is joy that I obtain and make, it is you who effects it for me, O God; so too, though it is wealth that I obtain, it is you, God, who effects it for me.
  2. salute
  3. welcome

Inflection

Feminine iā-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative fáilteL fáiltiL fáilti
Vocative fáilteL fáiltiL fáilti
Accusative fáiltiN fáiltiL fáilti
Genitive fáilte fáilteL fáilteN
Dative fáiltiL fáiltib fáiltib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

Adjective

fáilte

  1. inflection of fáilid:
    1. feminine genitive singular
    2. all genders genitive plural

Mutation

Mutation of fáilte
radical lenition nasalization
fáilte ḟáilte fáilte
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.

Further reading