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ETYMOLOGICAL DICTIONARY
vulan, be hot, O. H. G. walm, heat (Bez.). Cf. Caesar's Valetiacus. Borrowing from Lat. valête seems to be Zimmer's view (Zeit. 30 28). Rhys suggests W. gwell; Hend., Eng. wealth.
fainear, under consideration, Ir. fa deára, remark, fé ndeár, fé ndeara (Munster). Foley gives tabhair fa d'aire = "observe". "Thoir fainear" = observe, consider. The above may be a fixed fa d'aire = fa-deara, with n from the plural an, their.
fainleag, ainleag, a swallow, Ir. áinleóg, O. Ir. fannall, W. gwennol, Cor. guennol, Br. gwenneli *vannello. Cf. Fr. vanneau, lapwing, It. vannello, Med.Lat. vannellus, which is usually referred to Lat. vannus, fan. *vat-n-allo-s (Holden).
fàinne, a ring, Ir. fáinne, áinne, O. Ir. ánne, *ânniâ; Lat. ânus, Eng. annular.
fair, fàir, far, fetch, bring; a curtailed form of tabhair through thabhair or (tha)bhair? Cf. thoir.
fàir, dawn, E. Ir. fáir, W. gwawr, Br. gouere-, morning, gwereleuen, morning-star, *vâsri-, Lit. vasará, summer, Skr. vâsará, early shining, morning (adj.), Lat. ver, spring, Gr. ἔαρ, spring (Stokes).
fàir, fàire, ridge, sky-line; from fàir, dawn? Cf., however, Ir. faireóg, hillock, and fàireag, below.
fairc, bathe; see fathraig.
fairc, links, lands sometimes covered by the sea (M'A., who says that in Islay it means "hole"); from Eng. park?
fairce, fairche (M'D.), a mallet, Ir. farcha, farcha, farca, M. Ir. farca, E. Ir. forcha tened, thunderbolt; root ark as in adharc?
faircill, a cask or pot lid, E. Ir. farcle: *vor-cel-, root cel, cover.
faire, watching, Ir., E. Ir. faire; see aire.
fàireag, a gland, swollen gland, Ir. fáireóg (Fol., O'R.); cf. W. chwaren, gland, blotch, root sver, hurt, Ger. schwer, difficult. The W. precludes comparison with Lat. vărus, pimple, varix, dilated vein, Eng. varicose.
fairge, the ocean,Ir. fairrge, O. Ir. fairgge, Ptolemy's Vergivios, the Irish Atlantic; from the same root as fearg. In Sutherland fairge means the "ocean in storm". Usually pronounced as if fairce. W. Môr Werydd, the Atlantic.
fairgneadh, hacking, sacking:
fairich, perceive, feel, Ir. airighim, O. Ir. airigur, sentio; same root as faire (Stokes, Beit. 8 341).
fairleas, an object on the sky-line (H.S.D. from MSS.); *f-air-leus; from leus, light.
fairmeil, noisy: allied to seirm. See foirm?
fairsing, wide, Ir., O. Ir. fairsing, W. eang (= *ex-ang, ehang), *f-ar-ex-ang: "un-narrow", root ang, narrow (Stokes for W.).
