foúacair

Old Irish

Etymology

fo- +‎ uss- +‎ gairid

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ɸoˈhuːa̯ɡɨrʲ]

Verb

fo·úacair (verbal noun fócre)

  1. proclaim, announce
    • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 19b6
      Ro·pridchad dúib céssad Críst amal ad·cethe ꝉ fo·rócrad dúib amal bid fíadib no·crochthe.
      Christ’s Passion has been preached to you as though it were seen; or it has been announced to you as if he had been crucified before you.

Conjugation

Complex, class B II present, t preterite
active passive
singular plural singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
present indicative deut. fod·úacair (with infixed pronoun d-)
prot.
imperfect indicative deut.
prot.
preterite deut. fus·ocart (with infixed pronoun s-)
prot.
perfect deut. fos·rocurt (with infixed pronoun s-) fo·rócrad
prot.
future deut.
prot.
conditional deut.
prot.
present subjunctive deut.
prot.
past subjunctive deut.
prot.
imperative fuacair fógrad
verbal noun fócre
past participle
verbal of necessity

Derived terms

  • ar·focair

Descendants

  • Middle Irish: fócraid
    • Irish: fógair
    • Manx: fogrey
    • Scottish Gaelic: fuagair

Mutation

Mutation of fo·úacair
radical lenition nasalization
fo·úacair
(pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)		 fo·úacair fo·n-úacair

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

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