fáistine
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle Irish fáistine, from Old Irish fáithsine.
Noun
[edit]fáistine f (genitive singular fáistine, nominative plural fáistiní)
- (act of) prophesying; prophecy, soothsaying; divination
Declension
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Derived terms
[edit]- bean fáistine (“futurist”)
- déan fáistine (“foretell”, verb)
- fáistineach (“future”, adjective)
- fáistineach m (“future (tense)”)
- fáistineacht f (“fortune-telling”)
- fáistinigh (“prophesy”, verb)
- fear fáistine (“futurist”)
- fios fáistine (“clairvoyance”)
Mutation
[edit]radical | lenition | eclipsis |
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fáistine | fháistine | bhfáistine |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Further reading
[edit]- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “fáistine”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- “fáistine”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “fáistine”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 295
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “fáitsine, fáithsine”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “fáistine”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
Categories:
- Irish terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Irish terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *weh₂t-
- Irish terms inherited from Middle Irish
- Irish terms derived from Middle Irish
- Irish terms inherited from Old Irish
- Irish terms derived from Old Irish
- Irish lemmas
- Irish nouns
- Irish feminine nouns
- Irish fourth-declension nouns