foít

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Old Irish

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Etymology

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From the stem of foídid +‎ -ad. Regularly, *foídiud would be expected. When a prospective genitive singular *foíteo underwent syncope, the noun was reformed with its stem, foít.

Noun

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foít m (genitive unattested)

  1. verbal noun of foídid: sending
    • 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. 15a15
      .i. torisse leis ar fóit fortechtairechta ɫ. is hé fod·ruar.
      i.e. suitable for him to send on missions; or it is He who caused it.

Inflection

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Masculine u-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative foít
Vocative foít
Accusative foítN
Genitive foíteoH, foíteaH
Dative foítL
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Mutation

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

Further reading

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