fáith
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Alternative forms
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *wātis (compare Gaulish uatis, Welsh gwawd (“poem”)), from Proto-Indo-European *wéh₂tis, from *weh₂t- (“possessed, excited”). Cognate with Latin vātēs (“poet, seer”), Old English wōd (“poetry, inspiration”).
Pronunciation
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
- 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. 38c3
- Ní hé apstal cita·rogab in testimin so. Aliter: Ní fóu da·uc int apstal fon chéill fuand·rogab in fáith.
- It is not (the) apostle who first uttered this text. Otherwise: The apostle did not apply it in the sense in which the prophet uttered it.
- 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
| Masculine i-stem | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Dual | Plural | |
| Nominative | fáith | fáithL | fáithiH |
| Vocative | fáith | fáithL | fáithiH |
| Accusative | fáithN | fáithL | fáithiH |
| Genitive | fáthoH, fáthaH | fáthoH, fáthaH | fáitheN |
| Dative | fáithL | fáithib | fáithib |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Derived terms
- fáithsine (“prophecy”)
Descendants
- Irish: fáidh
Mutation
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Further reading
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “fáith, fáid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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