faigh bás
Irish
Etymology
Literally ‘to find death’.
Verb
faigh bás (present analytic faigheann bás, future analytic gheobhaidh bás, verbal noun bás a fháil, past participle faighte bás)
- to die (stop living)
- 1939, Peig Sayers, “Inghean an Cheannaidhe”, printed in Marie-Louise Sjoestedt, Description d’un parler irlandais de Kerry, Bibliothèque de l'École des Hautes Études 270. Paris: Librairie Honoré Champion, p. 193:
- Nuair a fuair sé bás, má bhí Máire brónach bhí sí sásta d’fhonn is go mbeadh an captaen óg le pósadh aici.
- When he died, even though Máire was sad, she was satisfied in the hope that the young captain would marry her.
- Nuair a fuair sé bás, má bhí Máire brónach bhí sí sásta d’fhonn is go mbeadh an captaen óg le pósadh aici.
- Fuair m'athair bás. ― My father died.
- 1939, Peig Sayers, “Inghean an Cheannaidhe”, printed in Marie-Louise Sjoestedt, Description d’un parler irlandais de Kerry, Bibliothèque de l'École des Hautes Études 270. Paris: Librairie Honoré Champion, p. 193:
Conjugation
conjugation of faigh bás: see faigh
Synonyms
- básaigh
- caill (in the autonomous; euphemistic)
- éag
- síothlaigh (euphemistic)
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