fáistineach - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
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From Middle Irish fáistinech (“one who prophesies or divines, a soothsayer”), from Old Irish fáitsine (“prophesying; a prophecy, an augury”) + -ach.
fáistineach m (genitive singular fáistinigh, nominative plural fáistinigh)
- prophet, soothsayer
- (grammar) future (tense)
- fáistineach foirfe (“future perfect”)
- fáistineacht (“fortune-telling”)
- fáistinigh (“prophesy”, verb)
fáistineach (genitive singular masculine fáistinigh, genitive singular feminine fáistiní, plural fáistineacha, not comparable)
- prophetic
- Synonyms: fáidhiúil, tairngeartach
- (grammar) future
- an aimsir fháistineach (“the future tense”)
| radical | lenition | eclipsis |
|---|---|---|
| fáistineach | fháistineach | bhfáistineach |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “fáistineach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- “prophetic”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “fáistinech”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “fáistineach”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
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