fogaib

Old Irish

Etymology

A suppletive verb. Noticeably, its root word gaibid does not contain this suppletion.

  • Most of the forms are from fo- +‎ gaibid.
  • The preterite forms (·fúair, ·frith etc.) are derived from Proto-Celtic *wourū, with the preterite non-passive forms from the reformed reduplicated preterite *woure and the preterite passive from the past participle *wrītos. These forms are cognate with Ancient Greek εὑρίσκω (heurískō, “to find, discover”).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ɸoˈɡaβʲ]

Verb

fo·gaib (prototonic ·fagaib, verbal noun fagbál)

  1. to find, to discover
  2. to get, to gain, to obtain

Usage notes

fo·gaib is an inherently telic verb and cannot be augmented with ro- (or similar). Unaugmented forms are used in contexts typically requiring augmentation.[2]

Inflection

Complex, class B II present, reduplicated preterite, é future, a subjunctive
active passive
singular plural singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
present indicative deut. fo·gaib; fo·geib
prot. ·fogbai ·fagaib ·fagbat
imperfect indicative deut.
prot.
preterite deut. fo·fúair fo·fúaratar fo·frith
prot. ·fúar ·fúair ·fritha
perfect deut.
prot.
future deut.
prot. ·fugéb ·fuigbe ·fuigebthar
conditional deut.
prot.
present subjunctive deut.
prot.
past subjunctive deut.
prot.
imperative
verbal noun fagbál
past participle
verbal of necessity

Quotations

  • c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 144b3
    Feib fond·úair-som la auctoru, is samlid da·árbuid.
    As he has found it in authors, so he has showed it.

Descendants

  • Irish: faigh
  • Manx: fow
  • Scottish Gaelic: faigh

Mutation

Mutation of fo·gaib
radical lenition nasalization
fo·gaib fo·gaib
pronounced with /ɣ-/		 fo·ngaib

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

References

  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*wer-V-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 414
  2. ^ McCone, Kim (1997) The Early Irish Verb (Maynooth Monographs 1), 2nd edition, Maynooth: An Sagart, →ISBN, page 146

Further reading

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