folúathar

Old Irish

Etymology

Seemingly fo- (“sub-”) +‎ luïthir (“to move”).

Verb

fo·lúathar

to fly
- c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 140^b8
  fu·luinn
  that I would fly (glosses Latin avolare)
- 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. 146^b11
  fo·llúur ― glosses Latin volo (“I fly”)

Inflection

Complex, class A III present, s preterite, deponent
		active						passive
		singular			plural			singular	plural
		1^st	2^nd	3^rd	1^st	2^nd	3^rd	singular	plural
present indicative	deut.	fo·llúur					fo·luatar
present indicative	prot.

imperfect indicative	deut.	fu·luïnn
imperfect indicative	prot.

preterite	deut.			fo·luastar
preterite	prot.

perfect	deut.
perfect	prot.

future	deut.
future	prot.

conditional	deut.
conditional	prot.

present subjunctive	deut.
present subjunctive	prot.

past subjunctive	deut.
past subjunctive	prot.

imperative

verbal noun
past participle
verbal of necessity

Mutation

Mutation of *fo·lúathar*
radical	lenition	nasalization
fo·lúathar also fo·llúathar	fo·lúathar pronounced with /l-/	fo·lúathar also fo·llúathar

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

Further reading

Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “fo-lúathar”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language