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OF THE GAELIC LANGUAGE.
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foirm, noise; side form of toirm?
fòirmeil, brisk, lively (Sh., etc.): from Eng. formal (Rob.).
foirmeilich, formalists.
fòirne, a band, dwellers, Ir. foirne (O'B.); an oblique form of foireann, g. foirne.
fòirneadh intruding; see teirinn, teàrnadh.
fòirneis, a furnace; see fùirneis.
foirneata, conspicuously brave; see niata.
fois, rest, Ir. fois, O. Ir. foss, residence, remaining, rest, W. ar-os; *voss-; root ves, be, rest; Gr. ἄστυ, city (*vastus); Skr. vástu, place; Lat. Vesta; Eng. was, Ger. wessen, be, Got. visa, remain. So all etymologists till Windisch (1892) suggested the root stâ, tat is *vo-sto-. Stokes still holds by old (1903). Hence foisdin, taciturnity, Ir. foisdine.
foisteadh, wages, hire, Ir. foistighim, I hire; M. Ir. foss, servant, W. gwas (Eng. vassal); from the same root as fois. Also fasdadh.
folach, covering, hiding; see falach.
fòlach, rank grass growing on dunghills; *vog-lo-, root, vog, veg of feur.
folachd, a feud, bloodiness; see fuil.
folachdain, water-parsnip (H.S.D. quotes only O'B.), Ir. folachtain:
follas, publicity, follaiseach, public, Ir. follus, public, manifest, O. Ir. follus, clear, shining, manifest, *svolnestu-s; see solus.
fonn, land, Ir. fonn, E. Ir. fond; from Lat. fundus, which, again, is connected with G. bonn, q.v.
fonn, a tune, Ir. fonn, tune, desire, delight, M. Ir. adbonn, a strain; *svonno-, root sven, sound, Lat. sonus, Eng. sound. See seinn.
fonnsair, a trooper (M'A.):
for-, super-, Ir., O. Ir. for-; prep. for, for which see far, air(b).
forach, forch, projection into the sea (Carm.):
forail, command, Ir. foráilim. See earail for formation and root.
forair, watch, Ir. foraire; from for and aire.
forasda, sedate, so Ir.; see farasda, in the sese of "staid".
forbhas, ambush (Sh., H.S.D., which quotes Lh. and C. S.), Ir. forbhas, E. Ir. forbas, siege:
forc, a fork, Ir. forc, E. Ir. forc (= gobul); for Lat. furca, Eng. fork.
forc, push (especially if legs are forked), pitch with a fork; from forc, fork.
forfhais, foras, information, inquiry, Ir. foras, E. Ir. foras, forus, true knowledge: *for-fiss, from fiss or fios, knowledge, q.v. foras feasa, "basis of knowledge".
forgan, keenness, anger; from a side-form forg (*vorg) of fearg?
