feadair
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Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Irish ·fitir, conjunct form of ro·fitir (“know”), originally the perfect tense of ro·finnadar (“to find”), from Proto-Celtic *windeti (“find”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“to see, know”).
Verb
[edit]feadair (present indicative dependent forms only)
- to know (used only in questions or negative sentences)
- ní fheadar ― I don’t know
- an bhfeadraís... ? ― do you know... ?
- nach bhfeadair sé... ? ― doesn’t he know... ?
Conjugation
[edit]Mutation
[edit]radical | lenition | eclipsis |
---|---|---|
feadair | fheadair | bhfeadair |
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) “feadair”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN