feithid

== Irish == === Alternative forms === aithid, athaid, feithide === Etymology === From Middle Irish ethait, from Old Irish ethait. The initial f- is prothetic and unetymological. === Noun === feithid f (genitive singular feithide, nominative plural feithidí) tiny creature, insect, bug (figuratively) puny, insignificant, person wild creature, beast repulsive creature, adder, serpent ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== === Mutation === === Further reading === Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “feithid”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959), “feithid”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm “feithid”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2026 == Old Irish == === Etymology === From Proto-Celtic *weteti, from Proto-Indo-European *wet- (“to turn to, be acquainted with”). Cognate with Proto-Indo-Iranian *wátati (“to be familiar with”). === Verb === feithid (conjunct ·fethi, verbal noun fethem) to watch c. 700 Immram Brain, published in The Voyage of Bran son of Febal to the land of the living (1895, London: David Nutt), pp. 1-35, edited and with translations by Kuno Meyer and Alfred Nutt, stanza 49 ==== Inflection ==== ==== Derived terms ==== ar·feith === References === === Further reading === Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 fethid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language