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
Alternative declension

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
Derived terms

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
Radical Lenition
fuath fhuath
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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