friotháil

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Irish[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old Irish fris·áilethar.

Verb[edit]

friotháil (present analytic friothálann, future analytic friothálfaidh, verbal noun friotháil, past participle friotháilte)

  1. to serve, minister
    • 1894 March, Peadar Mac Fionnlaoigh, “An rí nach robh le fagháil bháis”, in Irisleabhar na Gaedhilge, volume 1:5, Dublin: Gaelic Union, pages 185–88:
      Bhí sagart ar an altóir ⁊ d’fhiafruigh sé an robh an duine annsin a dhéanfadh Aifrionn a fhritheóladh.
      There was a priest on the altar, and he asked if there was anybody there to serve Mass.

Conjugation[edit]

Noun[edit]

friotháil f (genitive singular as substantive friothála, genitive as verbal noun friotháilte)

  1. verbal noun of friotháil
  2. service, ministration

Declension[edit]

Mutation[edit]

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
friotháil fhriotháil bhfriotháil
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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