foraois

Irish

FWOTD – 31 July 2024

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Irish foraís,[1] from Anglo-Norman forest, from Early Medieval Latin forestis.

Pronunciation

  • (Munster) IPA(key): /fəˈɾˠiːʃ/
  • (Connacht) IPA(key): /ˈfɔɾˠiːʃ/
  • (Ulster) IPA(key): /ˈfʌɾˠiʃ/

Noun

foraois f (genitive singular foraoise, nominative plural foraoisí or foraoiseacha)

  1. forest, timber
  2. retreat, recess; lair, den

Declension

Declension of foraois (second declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative foraois foraoisí
vocative a fhoraois a fhoraoisí
genitive foraoise foraoisí
dative foraois foraoisí
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an fhoraois na foraoisí
genitive na foraoise na bhforaoisí
dative leis an bhforaois
don fhoraois 		leis na foraoisí

Quotations

  • 2007, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, translated by Breandán Ó Doibhlin, An Prionsa Beag, Dublin: Read Ireland, →ISBN, page 1:
    Nuair a bhí mé sé bliana d’aois, chonaic mé, uair amháin, pictiúr iontach i leabhar i dtaobh na foraoise darbh ainm “Scéalta fíora.”
    Once when I was six years old, I saw a wonderful picture in a book about the forest called “True stories.”

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of foraois
radical lenition eclipsis
foraois fhoraois bhforaois

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “foraís”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Further reading

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