feadair

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Irish

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Etymology

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From Old Irish ·fitir, conjunct form of ro·fitir (know), originally the perfect tense of ro·finnadar (to find), from Proto-Celtic *windeti (find), from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (to see, know).

Verb

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feadair (present indicative dependent forms only)

  1. to know (used only in questions or negative sentences)
    fheadarI don’t know
    an bhfeadraís... ?do you know... ?
    nach bhfeadair sé... ?doesn’t he know... ?

Conjugation

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Mutation

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Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
feadair fheadair bhfeadair
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

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