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GLOSSARY. 631
feis, feisd, a feast, from Lat. festum.
feith, vein, W. (/loythen, Lat. vitia, vine, Gr. itea, willow, Enji;.
ivithe.
feodar, pewter = [from] Eug. pewter.
fiamh, a chain, root vl, bind, twine, Lat. iiieo, vimen, vitis, Eng.
ivithe.
fidir, consider, know ; fid-dir, root vid, Lat. video.
fige, a fig, from Lat. Jicm.
filidh, poet, W. givelwi; seer ; Welsli root <jv:el, to see ; also Ir.
filis, vidit.
fiiibeirt, a filbert ; from the Eng.
fine, tribe, cognate with Noi'se vinr, friend, Ag. S. vine, Old Eng.
ivine.
flnit, end = [from] Lat. jinitus.
fiodhull, fidheal, vi (din = \ivon\\ Mid. Eng. _/7>Ze/, from Lat. fidicuia
[D. From vitnia, whence viol .?]
fioghair, a figure, from Lat. figura.
fiolan, a felon = [from] Eng. felon [D.]
fionnadh, searching, perceiving, O. Ir. findaim, Skr. vlndami, find,
root vid, know,
fios, knowledge, 0. Ir. /is.s, *vid-fu ; root vid, see, know, Lat. video,
Eng. tvit, ivise.
firsan, righteous man, from fir, fior, true, Lat. verus. Hence also
firinn, truth.
fleisdear, arrow-maker = [from] Scot, fledgear, Lng. fietcher, Fr.
fleche, etc. [which last is borrowed from Celtic ; cf. Gaielic
fleasg, a rod, allied to Ag. S. weald, Eng. wold, etc.]
fo3al, word, from Lat. vocahulum [D.]
fo iar, fodder = [from] Eng. fodder.
foghair, a tone ; fo-gar, root gar ; see agair.
fojhar, harvest, Ir. foghmhar = fo-gheamhar, from geamhradh,
winter ; " towards winter."
foghnadh, sufficiency, ancient fognam, from the root gen of
gniovih, q.v.
fogradh, exile, ancient /ocre=/o-0(i-(7rtr; see for root agair.
foil, a sty ; root val \yet\, cover, house.
foircheadal, instruction =for-cet-al ; root cet, from cant, say, sing ;
root in can, q.v.
folbh, folt ; see falbh, fait,
fonn, land = [from] Lat. fundus.
fonn, tune ; root vad [ved, iid], Skr. vddafi, sing praises, vande,
celebro ; Gr. udeo, sing, praise [D. Rather the root is sven,
sound, Lat. sono, etc. ; (jaelic seinn.]
fore, a fork = [from] Lat. furca.
forsair, forester = [from] the Eng.