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Old Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]for- + Proto-Celtic *winati (“enclose (with a wattle fence)”), from Proto-Indo-European *wyeh₁- (“to weave, plait”). The Old Irish simplex *fenaid is unattested.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]for·fen (verbal noun forbae)
Inflection
[edit]Complex, class B IV present, reduplicated preterite, a subjunctive
| 1st sg. | 2nd sg. | 3rd sg. | 1st pl. | 2nd pl. | 3rd pl. | Passive sg. | Passive pl. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Present indicative | Deut. | for·fiun | for·fen | for·fenar | |||||
| Prot. | ·farbanar | ||||||||
| Imperfect indicative | Deut. | ||||||||
| Prot. | |||||||||
| Preterite | Deut. | ||||||||
| Prot. | |||||||||
| Perfect | Deut. | for·ruchui | far·cuadh (normalized for·cúad) | ||||||
| Prot. | ·forchui | ||||||||
| Future | Deut. | ||||||||
| Prot. | |||||||||
| Conditional | Deut. | ||||||||
| Prot. | |||||||||
| Present subjunctive | Deut. | for·fiat | |||||||
| Prot. | ·farfia | ||||||||
| Past subjunctive | Deut. | ||||||||
| Prot. | |||||||||
| Imperative | |||||||||
| Verbal noun | forbae | ||||||||
| Past participle | foirbthe | ||||||||
| Verbal of necessity | |||||||||
Derived terms
[edit]- foirbthe (“perfect”)
Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Middle Irish: forbaid
Mutation
[edit]| Old Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
| for·fen | for·ḟen | for·fen pronounced with /-β(ʲ)-/ |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
References
[edit]- ^ Schumacher, Stefan, Schulze-Thulin, Britta (2004) “Urkelt. *-wi-na- ‘flechten, biegen’”, in Die keltischen Primärverben: ein vergleichendes, etymologisches und morphologisches Lexikon (Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft; 110) (in German), Innsbruck: Institut für Sprachen und Literaturen der Universität Innsbruck, →ISBN, page 688f.
Further reading
[edit]- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “forfen”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Categories:
- Old Irish terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Old Irish terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *weh₁y-
- Old Irish terms derived from Proto-Celtic
- Old Irish terms prefixed with for-
- Old Irish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Old Irish lemmas
- Old Irish verbs
- Old Irish complex verbs
- Old Irish class B IV present verbs
- Old Irish reduplicated preterite verbs
- Old Irish a subjunctive verbs