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ETYMOLOGICAL DICTIONARY
fabhradh, swirl, eddy (Carm.). Cf. O. Ir. fobar (St.).
facal, focal, word, Ir. focal, O. Ir. focul, from Lat. vocabulum (through *focvul, Güterbock). Stokes and Wind. take it from Lat. vocula.
fachach, the puffin - a water fowl (Sh.); root va, blow? Onomatopoetic: f-ah-ah, call of bird?
fachail, strife (Sh.; H.S.D. marks it Dialectic); cf. Ir. fachain, striving.
fachant, puny (H.S.D. for N.High.):
fachaint, ridicule, scoffing; from fo-cainnt, "sub-speaking". Cf. W. gogan, satire, Br. goge, *vo-can, root can, sing, say.
fad, fad, long, Ir. fad, O. Ir. fota, longus, fot, length, *vad-dho- or vaz-dho-, Lat. vastus, vast? Hence fadal, delay, desiderium, Keat. faddáil, "long delay", from fad and dáil.
fàdadh, fadadh, kindling, Ir. fadadh, fadaghadh, fadógh (Keat.), Mid.Ir. fatód, E. Ir. átúd, which Zimmer analyses as *ad-soud (soud of iompaidh), but unsatisfactorily; E. Ir. adsúi tenid, kindles, adsúithe, kindled (Meyer). Cf. fód.
fadharsach, trifling, paltry, fagharsach:
fadhbhag, cuttle-fish:
fafan, a breeze:
fàg, leave, Ir. fágaim, O. Ir. foacbaim, fácbaim, *fo-ad-gab-; root gab of gabh, q.v.
fagus, faisg, near, Ir. fogus, E. Ir. focus, ocus, O. Ir. accus, W. agos, Br. hôgoz, *aggostu-. See agus.
faic, see, Ir. faic, O. Ir. im-aci, vides-ne, *ád-cî, see chì. The f is prothetic.
faich, faiche, a green (by the house), Ir., E. Ir. faithche, the field nearest the house, E. Ir. faidche, *ad-cáio-, "by the house", Celtic kaio-n, house; see ceardach. Ascoli refers it to O. Ir. aith, area (an imaginary word), and Jubainville allies it with W. gwaen, plain, Ger. weide (see bhàn for W.).
faiche, a crab, or lobster's, burrow (M'A.); see aice:
faichd, hiding place, den, mole's burrow; see aice.
faicheil, stately, showy; cf. Ir. faicheallach, luminous:
faicill, caution, guard, E. Ir. accill, preparation, watch: *ád-ciall; from ciall, sense? CF. dìchioll.
fàidh, a prophet, Ir. fáidh, O. Ir. fáith, *vâti-s; Lat. vates; Norse óðr, sense, song, M. Eng. wood, Sc. wud (= mad), Ger. with, rage. W. has gwawd, carmen: *vâto-.
faidhbhile, a beech, Ir. feagha, fagh-vile (Lh., Comp.Voc.), W. ffawydden, Br. fao; from Lat. fagus. G. adds the old word bile, a tree, which is the same in origin as bile, leaf.
