n o, m.
wood
acc. to O'Rahilly,
SGS iii 67
, citing :
f.¤ .i. clar no crann,
O'Dav. 914
, but only recorded in the
specialized meaning,
a (wooden) stretcher, a bier
(generally
for carrying the dead) ;
fuat .i. fuath e la cach no fo ad
[leg. fo ed ?] na collae bis,
Corm. Y 631
.
fuat bes comard
fri cris mna,
O'Dav. 914
. fuadh .i. cróchar, O'Cl.
f.¤ .i.
árad,
H 3.18, 70b2
=
Lec. Gl. 412
. Cf.
crand fedna .i. adbar
in araidh .i. fuaith,
Laws v 484.15 Comm.
fer ... do thobairt
for fúatt amal bid marb,
Trip.² 2619 (220.23)
.
fer marb ...
for fuat
,
BColm. 24.5
.
tanic ... gosin fuat for a roib a
mhac,
Aen. 2705
(= feretro
Aeneid xi 149
).
scarthar
an corp ris an bhfuad nó ris an gcróchar, gonadh de sin
atá Áth Fuaid,
Keat. ii 5416
.
bretha ... ind óic athgoiti
for fúataib immach ... co mbátar oca n-othor ...,
LU 1594
(
IT ii2 214
).
do ronsat fuaid ┐ crochair don lucht ro bai
beoghónta,
Cog. 210z
. docunnaicc se ... Sir T. ar imchar
acu a fuad
litter
ZCP vi 66.2
. cuitech fuatt (leg. fuait ?)
BB 433a26
seems the portorium or money placed in the
mouths of the dead as a fee to Charon the ferryman of
Acheron.
As a contemptuous epithet (cf. similar use of `stick'
in Hiberno-Engl.) : is mórán fuad do chuaig mar chéird
leis `
wretch
'
Five Pol. Poems 97.353
. Cf.
ag fuaid
... ag óinmhid,
Midnight court 218
. fuad `a silly flighty
fellow
'
P. O'C.
See also Keat. Poems cited s.v. 1 fúait.
Compd.
¤árach a litter, stretcher:
ro erail fúadarach fithe
fionnchaolaigh do dhēnomh do M. ... dia iomchur,
Hugh Roe 260.11 (f. 69a)
.