feoigh

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Irish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Middle Irish feódaid, feódaigid, from feo (withered), from Proto-Celtic *wiwos (withered) (whence also Welsh gwyw), from Proto-Indo-European *weyh₁- (to wither) (compare Latin viēscō (to wilt), Old Norse visinn (wilted), Lithuanian výsti (to wither))[1]

Pronunciation[edit]

Verb[edit]

feoigh (present analytic feonn, future analytic feofaidh, verbal noun feo, past participle feoite)

  1. to decay, wither, rot

Conjugation[edit]

Alternative verbal noun: feochan

Mutation[edit]

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
feoigh fheoigh bhfeoigh
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References[edit]

  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*wiwo-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN

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