fás

See also: Appendix:Variations of "fas"

Irish

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Old Irish ásaid and its verbal noun ás (growing, growth). The f comes from the reinterpretation of ás- as fhás- in lenition environments.

Verb

fás (present analytic fásann, future analytic fásfaidh, verbal noun fás, past participle fásta)

  1. (transitive, intransitive) grow
Conjugation

Noun

fás m (genitive singular as substantive fáis, genitive as verbal noun fásta, nominative plural fáis)

  1. verbal noun of fás
  2. growing, growth
  3. plant, sapling, rod
Declension

As verbal noun:

As substantive:

Synonyms

Etymology 2

From Old Irish fás (empty, void, (of places) vacant, deserted, uninhabited, waste), from Proto-Celtic *wāstos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁weh₂-sto- from *h₁weh₂-.

Adjective

fás (genitive singular masculine fáis, genitive singular feminine fáise, plural fása, comparative fáise)

  1. waste, vacant, empty, void
  2. wild, luxuriant
Declension

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
fás fhás bhfás
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

  • "fás" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
  • ásaid” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
  • 1 fás” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
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