fuath

Irish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fˠuə/
  • (Ulster) IPA(key): /fˠuə/, [fˠɪə][1]

Etymology 1

From Old Irish fúath, úath (likeness, form).

Noun

fuath m (genitive singular fuatha, nominative plural fuathanna or fuatha)

  1. (literary) form, shape
  2. phantom, spectre
Declension
Alternative declension

Etymology 2

From Middle Irish fúath (hatred, abhorrence), from Old Irish úath (horror). Doublet of uath (horror).

Noun

fuath m (genitive singular fuatha)

  1. hate, hatred (with do or ar + the person or thing hated)
    fuath agam don áit sin.I hate that place.
    fuath agam ar an áit sin.I hate that place.
Declension
Derived terms
  • fuafar (hateful, hideous, odious, adjective)
  • fuath an mhadra m (wolf’s bane)
  • fuath gorm m (woody nightshade, bittersweet)
  • fuathaigh (hate, transitive verb)
  • fuathúil (hateful, hideous, odious, adjective)
  • is fuath le (hate, verb)
  • tabhair fuath do (to turn against, forsake, come to dislike)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
fuath fhuath bhfuath
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

References

  1. Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 29

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Middle Irish fúath (hatred, abhorrence), from Old Irish úath (horror).

Noun

fuath m (genitive singular fuatha, plural fuathan)

  1. antipathy, hate, hatred
  2. abhorrence, loathing
  3. enmity, odium

Derived terms

Mutation

Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical Lenition
fuathfhuath
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

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