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OF THE GAELIC LANGUAGE.
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fich, an interjetion denoting "nasty"! Eng. fie, Norse fý, Ger. pfui. Also Dial. fuich, fuidh, which leans on Norse fúi, rottenness ("Cha bhi fuidh ach far am bi fàile").
fichead, twenty, Ir. fiche, ar fhichid, O. Ir. fiche, g. fichet, W. ugeint, ugain, Cor. ugens, ugans, Br. ugent, *vikṇs, uikṇtos; Lat. vîginti; Gr. εἴκοσι; Zend vîçaiti.
fideadh, a suggestion (H.S.D.): *vid-dho-, root vid, wit.
fideag, a small pipe, reed, flute, Ir. fideóg; for root, see fead. Shaw also gives the meaning "small worm". M'L. has fìdeag.
fidean, a green islet or spit uncovered at high tide, web of sea-clam (Isles); from the N. fit, webbed foot of waterfowl, meadow land on the banks of firths or rivers, fitja, to web, Eng. fit.
fìdhleir, a fiddler; from fiodhull. Ir. fidiléir is Eng. fiddler directly borrowed. Hence G. fidleireachd, restlessness; "fiddling" about.
fidir, know, consider, Ir. fidir, knows, O. Ir. fetar, scio, fitir, novit, *viddetor, *vid-dho- (the -dho- as in creid, Windisch); root vid, see, as in fios. Thurneysen explains it as *videsar (aorist stem vides-) becoming vid-shar, but d-sh does not produce t or d without an n before it.
fige, figis, a fig, Ir. fíge; from Lat. fîcus, Eng. fig.
figh, weave, Ir. fighim, E. Ir. figim, O. W. gueig, testrix, W. gweu, to weave, Cor. guiat, tela, Br. twea, M. Br. tweaff, *vegiô; Ger wickeln, roll, wind, curl, wieche, wick, Eng. wick, Ag. S. wecca (Stokes). Usually referred to the root vei, vi, wind.
file, filidh, a poet, Ir. file, g. filidh, O. Ir. fili, g. filed, *velet-, "seer"; W. gwelet, to see, Br. guelet, sight, *velô. Cf. Norse völva, prophetess, sibyl. Old Germanic Veleda, a prophetess (Tacitus).
fill, fold, Ir. fillim, fold, return, O. Ir. fillim, flecto, *velvô; Lat. volvo, roll, volumen, Eng. volume; Gr. εἰλúω, envelop; Got. af-valvjan, roll away, Eng. wallow. Cf. W. olwyn, a wheel (Stokes). Windisch (Curt. Et.) suggests vald as root, allied to Norse velta, roll, Got. valtjan, Eng. welter, Ger. walze, roll, waltz. See especially till.
fillein, a collop: a "roll"; from fill.
fine, a tribe, kindred, Ir., O. Ir. fine, O. Br. coguenou, indigena, *venjâ, kinship; Norse vinr, a friend, Ag. S. wine, O. H. G. wini (do.); I. E. root ven, love, Lat. Venus, veneror, Eng. venerate, Skr. van, love.
fìnealta, fine, elegant, Ir. fínealta; cf. M. Ir. fín- in Fínscothach, fair-flowered, Fin-shnechta, bright-snow, root svén; Gr. ἠνοψ, bright (Stokes for M. Ir.).
