fíad

See also: fiad

Old Irish

fíad m

Masculine u-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	fíad	fíad^L	fíadae^H
Vocative	fíad	fíad^L	fíadu
Accusative	fíad^N	fíad^L	fíadu
Genitive	fíado^H, fíada^H	fíado^L, fíada^L	fíadae^N
Dative	fíad^L	fíadaib	fíadaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: ^H = triggers aspiration ^L = triggers lenition ^N = triggers nasalization

From Proto-Celtic *wēdūi, dative singular of *weidos (“sight, presence”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“perceive, see”).

fíad (governs the dative, triggers lenition)

before (in time)
before (in space), in front of
- c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 19^b6
  Ro·pridchad dúib céssad Críst amal ad·cethe ꝉ fo·rócrad dúib amal bid fíadib no·crochthe.
  Christ’s Passion has been preached to you as though it were seen; or it has been announced to you as if he had been crucified before you.

Inflection of fíad

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
fíad	ḟíad	fíad pronounced with /β(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.