fí

fí n (indeclinable)

1. phi (Greek letter)

fí n (genitive singular fís, nominative plural fí)

1. phi (Greek letter)

• fighe (dated)

• (Munster, Connacht) IPA^(key): /fʲiː/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /fʲiə/^[1] (corresponding to the form fighe)

fí f (genitive singular as substantive fí, genitive as verbal noun fite)

1. verbal noun of figh (“to weave”)
2. weave (type or way of weaving)

As verbal noun:

As substantive:

fí

1. analytic present subjunctive of figh

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
fí	fhí	bhfí
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

From Proto-Indo-European *wisós (“poison”). Cognate with Latin vīrus, Sanskrit विष (víṣa), Ancient Greek ἰός (iós).

• IPA^(key): /ɸʲiː/

fí (poetic)

1. poison, venom
2. evil

Middle Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
fí	ḟí	fí pronounced with /β(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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

Borrowed from Ancient Greek φεῖ (pheî).

• IPA^(key): /ˈfiː/

fí n

1. (Greek letters) phi

• “fí”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2024