foid

See also: fòid

English

Etymology 1

Noun

foid (plural foids)

1. (geology, colloquial) Clipping of feldspathoid.

Derived terms

• foidal

Etymology 2

Noun

foid (plural foids)

1. (incel slang, derogatory, offensive) Clipping of femoid.
   • 2021 July 21, Michael Levenson, “‘Incel’ Is Charged With Plotting to Shoot Women, U.S. Says”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN, archived from the original on 31 August 2021:

     Mr. Genco posted on an incel website that he had also shot couples and “foids” — short for “femoids,” an incel term for women — with orange juice from a water gun, which made him feel “spiritually connected to the saint on that day,” according to the indictment.

Coordinate terms

• moid
• troid

Anagrams

• FIDO, Fido, I'd of, fido

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *woseti.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɸo.əðʲ/
  • (Blasse) [ˈɸo.ɪðʲ]
  • (Griffith) [ˈɸo.ɨðʲ]

Verb

foïd (verbal noun fess)

1. to spend the night
   • c. 760-800, Tairired na nDessi from Rawlinson B 502; published in "The Expulsion of the Dessi", Y Cymmrodor (1901, Society of Cymmrodorion), edited and with translations by Kuno Meyer, vol. 14, pp. 104-135 , paragraph 3:

     Is desin ro·gníd Ocheill for Temraig sechtair .i. clasa ráth la Cormac, conid inte no·foíhed-som do grés, ar ni ba hada rí co n-anim do feis i Temraig.

     Hence Achaill was built by the side of Tara, that is to say a ringfort was dug by Cormac in which he would always sleep, as it was not lawful for a king with a blemish to sleep in Tara.

Conjugation

Simple, class A III present, reduplicated preterite, f future, a subjunctive

		active						passive
		singular			plural			singular	plural
		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
present indicative	abs.			foaid, foíd, faid			fooit
	conj.			·foí			·foat, ·faat, ·faeat
	rel.			foas			foite
imperfect indicative				·foíed, ·foad, ·foíhed
preterite	abs.			fíu			féotar
	conj.
	rel.
perfect	deut.
	prot.		·roae
future	abs.	fíba					fibait
	conj.			·fifa, ·fifea, ·faíbea	·fifam, ·faifem	·fíbaid
	rel.			fibas
conditional
present subjunctive	abs.		ro·foasu (ro-form)		ro·faeem (ro-form)
	conj.		faei	·fia			·foet
	rel.
past subjunctive				·fïad
imperative			foí, fáe	foad, foíedh		foïd
verbal noun		fess
past participle
verbal of necessity

Mutation

Mutation of foid

radical	lenition	nasalization
foid	ḟoid	foid pronounced with /β̃-/

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

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