foradh

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Irish forad (“mound, platform”);[2] cognate with Scottish Gaelic faradh. Doublet of fara.

Pronunciation

Noun

foradh m (genitive singular foraidh, nominative plural foraidh)

  1. (literary) roost, elevated seat, loft

Declension

Declension of foradh (first declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative foradh foraidh
vocative a fhoraidh a fhoradha
genitive foraidh foradh
dative foradh foraidh
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an foradh na foraidh
genitive an fhoraidh na bhforadh
dative leis an bhforadh
don fhoradh 		leis na foraidh

Mutation

Mutated forms of foradh
radical lenition eclipsis
foradh fhoradh bhforadh

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

  1. ^ “foradh”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “forad”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906), A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 9, page 7

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