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Galician
Verb
fás
- (reintegrationist norm) second-person singular present indicative of fazer
Hungarian
Etymology
fa (“tree”) + -s (“with, having”, adjective-forming suffix)
Pronunciation
Adjective
fás (comparative fásabb, superlative legfásabb)
- treed, wooded, woody, tree-lined, tree-shaded (planted or covered with trees)
- Synonyms: erdős, ligetes, bokros, cserjés
- (botany) woody, ligneous, non-herbaceous
- fás szárú növények ― ligneous plants
- (of vegetables) stringy, fibrous (resistant to chewing)
- Synonyms: rostos, szálas, taplós, pudvás, öreg
Declension
Derived terms
Further reading
- fás in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
- fás in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2024).
Irish
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Old Irish ásaid and its verbal noun áss (“growing, growth”). The f comes from the reinterpretation of ás- as fhás- in lenition environments.
Verb
fás (present analytic fásann, future analytic fásfaidh, verbal noun fás, past participle fásta)
- (transitive, intransitive) grow
Conjugation
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singular
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plural
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relative
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autonomous
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| first
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second
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third
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first
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second
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third
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| indicative
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present
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fásaim
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fásann tú;
fásair†
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fásann sé, sí
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fásaimid
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fásann sibh
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fásann siad;
fásaid†
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a fhásann; a fhásas /
a bhfásann*
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fástar
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| past
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d'fhás mé; d'fhásas /
fhás mé‡; fhásas‡
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d'fhás tú; d'fhásais /
fhás tú; fhásais‡
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d'fhás sé, sí /
fhás sé, sí‡
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d'fhásamar; d'fhás muid /
fhásamar; fhás muid‡
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d'fhás sibh; d'fhásabhair /
fhás sibh;
fhásabhair‡
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d'fhás siad; d'fhásadar /
fhás siad; fhásadar‡
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a d'fhás /
ar fhás*
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fásadh
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| past habitual
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d'fhásainn /
fhásainn‡; bhfásainn‡‡
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d'fhástá /
fhástá‡; bhfástᇇ
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d'fhásadh sé, sí /
fhásadh sé, sí‡; bhfásadh sé, s퇇
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d'fhásaimis; d'fhásadh muid /
fhásaimis; fhásadh muid‡; bhfásaimis‡‡; bhfásadh muid‡‡
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d'fhásadh sibh /
fhásadh sibh‡; bhfásadh sibh‡‡
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d'fhásaidís; d'fhásadh siad /
fhásaidís; fhásadh siad‡; bhfásaidís‡‡; bhfásadh siad‡‡
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a d'fhásadh /
a bhfásadh*
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d'fhástaí /
fhástaí‡; bhfásta퇇
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| future
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fásfaidh mé;
fásfad
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fásfaidh tú;
fásfair†
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fásfaidh sé, sí
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fásfaimid;
fásfaidh muid
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fásfaidh sibh
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fásfaidh siad;
fásfaid†
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a fhásfaidh; a fhásfas /
a bhfásfaidh*
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fásfar
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| conditional
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d'fhásfainn / fhásfainn‡; bhfásfainn‡‡
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d'fhásfá / fhásfá‡; bhfásfᇇ
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d'fhásfadh sé, sí / fhásfadh sé, sí‡; bhfásfadh sé, s퇇
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d'fhásfaimis; d'fhásfadh muid / fhásfaimis‡; fhásfadh muid‡; bhfásfaimis‡‡; bhfásfadh muid‡‡
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d'fhásfadh sibh / fhásfadh sibh‡; bhfásfadh sibh‡‡
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d'fhásfaidís; d'fhásfadh siad / fhásfaidís‡; fhásfadh siad‡; bhfásfaidís‡‡; bhfásfadh siad‡‡
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a d'fhásfadh /
a bhfásfadh*
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d'fhásfaí / fhásfaí‡; bhfásfa퇇
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| subjunctive
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present
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go bhfása mé;
go bhfásad†
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go bhfása tú;
go bhfásair†
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go bhfása sé, sí
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go bhfásaimid;
go bhfása muid
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go bhfása sibh
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go bhfása siad;
go bhfásaid†
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—
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go bhfástar
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| past
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dá bhfásainn
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dá bhfástá
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dá bhfásadh sé, sí
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dá bhfásaimis;
dá bhfásadh muid
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dá bhfásadh sibh
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dá bhfásaidís;
dá bhfásadh siad
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dá bhfástaí
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| imperative
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fásaim
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fás
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fásadh sé, sí
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fásaimis
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fásaigí;
fásaidh†
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fásaidís
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fástar
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| verbal noun
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fás
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| past participle
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fásta
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* indirect relative
† archaic or dialect form
‡ dependent form
‡‡ dependent form used with particles that trigger eclipsis
Noun
fás m (genitive singular as substantive fáis, genitive as verbal noun fásta, nominative plural fáis)
- verbal noun of fás
- growing, growth
- plant, sapling, rod
Declension
As verbal noun:
As substantive:
Synonyms
Derived terms
Etymology 2
From Old Irish fás (“empty, void, (of places) vacant, deserted, uninhabited, waste”), from Proto-Celtic *wāstos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁weh₂-sto-.
Adjective
fás (genitive singular masculine fáis, genitive singular feminine fáise, plural fása, comparative fáise)
- waste, vacant, empty, void
- wild, luxuriant
Declension
¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.
Derived terms
Mutation
| Irish mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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| fás
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fhás
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bhfás
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| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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References
- ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 52, page 28
- ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 105
- ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 315, page 111
Further reading
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “fás”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “ásaid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 fás”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Portuguese
Pronunciation
Noun
fás
- plural of fá