faic

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology 1

From Old Irish ·aicci, prototonic form of ad·cí (“sees, notices, observes; perceives, discerns, realizes”), from Proto-Celtic *ad-kʷis-o-, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷei- (“observe”) or *kʷes-. The initial f- of the modern form (see also Irish feic, Manx faik) comes from the misinterpretation of aic- as lenited fhaic-.

Verb

faic (past chunnaic, future chì, verbal noun faicinn, past participle faicte)

  1. see, look, behold
Conjugation
Tense \ Voice Active Passive
Present a' faicinn --
Past chunnaic chunnacas
Future chì chìthear
Conditional chìtheadh chìteadh

Etymology 2

Noun

faic f (genitive singular faice, plural faicean)

  1. hiding place, den, hole
  2. sparkle
  3. pigsty
  4. badly-kept house

Mutation
Scottish Gaelic mutation
RadicalLenition
faicfhaic
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References
  • Faclair Gàidhlig Dwelly Air Loidhne, Dwelly, Edward (1911), Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic-English Dictionary (10th ed.), Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • “ad-cí” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
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