fuath

Irish

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /fˠuə/

Etymology 1

From Old Irish fúath, úath (“likeness, form, semblance; a hideous or supernatural form, a spectre, apparition, monster”).

Noun

fuath m (genitive singular fuatha, nominative plural fuathanna or fuatha)

  1. (literary) form, shape
  2. phantom, spectre
Declension
Declension of fuath

Third declension

Bare forms:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative fuath fuathanna
Vocative a fhuath a fhuathanna
Genitive fuatha fuathanna
Dative fuath fuathanna

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an fuath na fuathanna
Genitive an fhuatha na bhfuathanna
Dative leis an bhfuath

don fhuath

 leis na fuathanna
Alternative declension
Declension of fuath

Third declension

Bare forms:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative fuath fuatha
Vocative a fhuath a fhuatha
Genitive fuatha fuath
Dative fuath fuatha

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an fuath na fuatha
Genitive an fhuatha na bhfuath
Dative leis an bhfuath

don fhuath

 leis na fuatha

Etymology 2

From Middle Irish fúath (“hatred, abhorrence”), from Old Irish úath (“horror”).

Noun

fuath m (genitive singular fuatha)

  1. hate, hatred (with do or ar + the person or thing hated)
    Tá fuath agam don áit sin. ― I hate that place.
    Tá fuath agam ar an áit sin. ― I hate that place.
Declension
Declension of fuath

Third declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun)

Case Singular
Nominative fuath
Vocative a fhuath
Genitive fuatha
Dative fuath

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular
Nominative an fuath
Genitive an fhuatha
Dative leis an bhfuath

don fhuath

Derived terms
  • fuafar, fuathúil (“hateful, hideous, odious”, adjective)
  • fuathaigh (“hate”, transitive verb)
  • fuath an mhadra m (“wolf’s bane”)
  • fuath gorm m (“woody nightshade, bittersweet”)
  • is fuath le (“hate”, verb)
  • tabhair fuath do (“to turn against, forsake, come to dislike”)

Mutation
Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
fuath fhuath bhfuath
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading
  • "fuath" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
  • “1 fúath” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
  • “1 úath” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Middle Irish fúath (“hatred, abhorrence”), from Old Irish úath (“horror”).

Noun

fuath m (genitive singular fuatha, plural fuathan)

  1. antipathy, hate, hatred
  2. abhorrence, loathing
  3. enmity, odium

Derived terms

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

Further reading
  • 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
  • “2 fúath” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
  • “1 úath” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
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