fáilid

• faílid

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• IPA^(key): [ˈɸaːlʲiðʲ]

fáilid

1. happy, glad, joyful
   • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 107^a15

     Bid sochaide a·trefea indiutsiu ⁊ bid fáilid nach oín adid·trefea.

     There will be many who will dwell in thee, and every one will be joyful who will so dwell.

     (literally, “…who will dwell it”)

   • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 129^c8

     in tan ṁberes claind, is fáilid íar sin

     when she bears children, she is joyous after that

• fáilte

• Irish: fáilí
• Scottish Gaelic: faoilidh (“liberal, hospitable”)

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “fáilid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language