fáth

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish fáth, from Proto-Celtic *wātus (“inspired utterance”) (compare Welsh gwawd (“song, praise, poetry”)), from Proto-Indo-European *weh₂t-.

Pronunciation

Noun

fáth m (genitive singular fátha, nominative plural fáthanna)

  1. cause
  2. reason
    Níl fáth agam le fanacht.
    I have no reason to stay.

Declension
Declension of fáth

Third declension

Bare forms:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative fáth fáthanna
Vocative a fháth a fháthanna
Genitive fátha fáthanna
Dative fáth fáthanna

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an fáth na fáthanna
Genitive an fhátha na bhfáthanna
Dative leis an bhfáth

don fháth

 leis na fáthanna

Synonyms

Derived terms

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

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *wātus (“inspired utterance”) (compare Welsh gwawd (“song, praise, poetry”)), from Proto-Indo-European *weh₂t-.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /faːθ/

Noun

fáth m

  1. cause, reason
  2. motive, object
  3. subject, matter
  4. prophecy
  5. composition, maxim

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Derived terms
  • fáthach
  • fáthaige
  • fáthamail

Descendants
  • Irish: fáth
  • Manx: fa
  • Scottish Gaelic: fàth
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