fíad

See also: fiad

Old Irish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [fʲiːa̯ð]

Etymology 1

From Proto-Celtic *wēdus, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁weydʰh₁-u-s.

Noun

fíad m

  1. game, wild animals
  2. deer
  3. wasteland, wilderness
  4. uncultivated land
  5. a territory, land
Inflection
Masculine u-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative fíad fíadL fíadaeH
Vocative fíad fíadL fíadu
Accusative fíadN fíadL fíadu
Genitive fíadoH, fíadaH fíadoL, fíadaL fíadaeN
Dative fíadL fíadaib fíadaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization
Synonyms
Derived terms
  • fíadach
  • fíadaige
  • fíadaigid
  • fíadair
  • fíadamail
  • fíadan
Descendants
  • Irish: fia
  • Manx: feeaih
  • Scottish Gaelic: fiadh

Further reading

Etymology 2

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

Preposition

fíad (governs the dative, triggers lenition)

  1. before (in time)
  2. 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. 19b6
      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

Further reading

Mutation

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