fáith
See also: faith and Faith
Old Irish
FWOTD – 7 September 2014
Alternative forms
- fáid
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *wātis (compare Gaulish οὐάτεις (ouateis), Welsh gwawd (“poem”)), from Proto-Indo-European *wéh₂tis, from *weh₂t- (“possessed, excited”) (compare Latin vātēs, Old English wōd (“inspiration”)).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /faːθʲ/
Noun
fáith m (genitive fátho, nominative plural fáithi)
- (paganism) seer, soothsayer
- (Christianity) prophet
- 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. 13d23
- fírfidir a n-as·rubart in fáith
- what the prophet has said will be verified
- fírfidir a n-as·rubart in fáith
- 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. 13d23
Inflection
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Derived terms
- fáithsine (“prophecy”)
Descendants
- Irish: fáidh
Mutation
| Old Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
| fáith | ḟáith | fáith pronounced with /v(ʲ)-/ |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
References
- “fáith, fáid” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.