1 fuidir
Cite this: eDIL s.v. 1 fuidir or dil.ie/24771
Forms:
fuither, fuidir, fuider, fuidir, fuidri, fuidre, fuidir, fuidre, fuidri, fuidire, fuidre, f., f., f., f., f., f., fuidhir
n f. With the possible exception of the dubious
fuither,
LL 216b39
(
Metr. Dinds. iv 318
: `tenant') no exx.
are recorded from the literature. In Laws Comm. frequently
glossed fodáer. Other expls. are:
fuider .i. fo deirge ...
desero latine .i. dergim,
O'Mulc. 589
, (where deirge is evidently vn. of 1 do-érig `abandons.' Cf.
O'Dav. 1052
cited
below). fuidhir .i. fodháor .i. fear tuarastail, O'Cl. fuidhre
.i. lucht friothoilte servants ib.
f.¤ .i. dochonaich,
Lec. Gl.
314
,
Stowe Gl. 366
(.i. om.). Thurn.,
Ir. Recht 61
(cf.
Cóic Con. 76
, footnotes) accepts the etym. `fo-dír,' interpreting it as `in the tribe but not of the blood,' or `belonging
to the lower grades of the kindred.' The following forms
are found in Laws Text as printed: n
s. fuidir, pass., but
fuider,
Laws
iv 38x
(=
fuidir,
Ir. Recht 63 n. 7
;
70.12
). [fuidir
Laws
v 360.14
is taken as g
s. in transl., and this is supported
by the reading cacha fuidri
H 3.18, 392a29
. but evidently
nom. is required, see
Ir. Recht 65 § 7
]. g
s.
meth cacha
fuidre
,
Ir. Recht 66 § 10
(=
fuidri,
H 3.18, 392a35
) mas ar
scath fuidri tucustair he ... mas ar ḟocraic `if it is for
fuidir-
ship he has given it (the land) ... if it is for reward'
Laws v 36.31 Comm.
mas a rath ḟuidhri ... mas ar focraic
`as fuidir-
stock ... ; for reward' ib.
5
. fognum do denum
d'ferund fuidri ib.
38.27
. cuic samhuisce doberar a rath
fuidhre the stock lent to a fuidir is five heifers
Ir. Recht 68
Comm.
pl.
fuidre,
Laws iii 10.16
.
fuidri,
iv 282.11
.
fuidire,
v
360.13
. teora fuidre
ib.
10
(=
Ir. Recht 65 § 7
). A member
of an inferior class in the early Irish social organization.
A concise and authoritative description of the f.¤
is given
by Binchy in his edition of Críth Gablach: acc. to him
the f.¤
is a `tenant at will,' settled by the lord (flaith) on a
portion of the latter's land; his services to the lord are
always undefined. `Although his condition is semi-servile, he retains the right to abandon his holding on
giving due notice to the lord and surrendering to him two
thirds of the products of his husbandry.'
Críth G. p. 93
.
A f.¤
who has for nine generations occupied the same lord's
land thereby ranks as a serf
and his descendants are also
serfs (see
Críth G. 327
, cited below). The lowest grades of f.¤
were not entitled to `díre' for damage to their property
nor were they responsible for guilt or debts incurred by
their kinsmen (
Laws v 512.1 ff
. =
Ir. Recht 63
;
Laws
iv 38x
=
Stud. in E. Ir. Law 148
). In
Laws v 360.13
(=
Ir. Recht 65
) they are
divided into seven classes; in the Comm. they are frequently classed as `doerfuidri' and `soerfuidri,' the former
being virtually unfree, the latter having the right of separating from their lord (see Thurneysen,
Cóic Con. 76
and especially
Ir. Recht 61 ff
. where the relevant passages
from the Laws are assembled and discussed): fuidre flatha,
doermanaig eclaise (persons unqualified for forming contracts except when authorized by their guardian or superior)
Laws iii 10.16
. f.¤ [fuithir LB] .i. fo thir .i. intí dobeir tir
fo na deoraig anechtair, is do is ainm f.¤
he who takes land
under an immigrant settler, it is he who is called `f.¤
' (`who
gives land to a stranger' Corm. Transl.)
Corm. Y 610
.
Thurneysen,
Ir. Recht 61 n. 4
, takes the original reading
to be that in the Bk. of Hy Many: in ti dobeir tir fon
deoraith anechtair is do <is> fuithir he who [ = if one]
gives land to an immigrant the latter is a `f.' to him.'
dligid
fuider (fuidir v.l.) frithfolta,
Anecd. iii 13
(
fudir,
LL 345d16
;
fuidhir,
YBL 411d12
).
f.¤ crui ┐ gola,
O'Dav. 1052
(one
of the subclasses of `fuidre,' of which a list is given in
Ir. Recht 65
=
Laws v 360.13 f
.).
ma beith fognum diib co
nómad náo it bothaig, it fuidri,
Críth G. 327
(
Ir. Recht 81
).
atait da cenel for daerfuidir, d. ghaoidhealach ┐ d. tar muir,
Ir. Recht 68 Komm. III
. Cf. also:
cach f.¤ .i. daer a athair
┐ a senathair,
Laws v 512. 10
=
macc fuidre ┐ ua aroile ┐
f.¤ fein,
SM Facs. 2a
.
in saerfuidir .i. fri re triir,
Cóic Con.
21 §14 Comm.
See fuidrius.