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fáth

fáth

Irish

Noun

fáth m ‎(genitive singular fátha, nominative plural fáthanna)

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

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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 *wet- ‎(“to blow, inspire, arouse spiritually”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /faːθ/

Noun

fáth m

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

Inflection

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Derived terms

  • fáthach
  • fáthaige
  • fáthamail

Descendants

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

Etymology

From Old Irish fáth, from Proto-Celtic *wātus ‎(“inspired utterance”) (compare Welsh gwawd ‎(“song, praise, poetry”)), from Proto-Indo-European *wet- ‎(“to blow, inspire, arouse spiritually”).

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