- fàs
- I
grow, Irish fásaim, Old Irish ásaim, fásaim, root aux, au$$g, increase, Latin augeo, Greek $$Gau$$'/xw, English eke, wax. Stokes and Strachan refer fás to a stem (p)ât-to-, pát, pat, eat, feed, Greek $$Gpatéomai, eat, English feed, food. Latin pasco, pastum.IIempty, waste, fàsach, a desert, Irish fás, fásach, Old Irish fás, fáas, vanus, fásach, desert: *vâsto-s, a waste; Latin vastus, vastare; English waste, German wüste. Hence fàsan, refuse of grain: "waste". fásach, desert, is neuter, See M`A. pref. VIII.
Etymological dictionary of the Gaelic language. Alexander Gairm Publications. 1982.