fondúair

Old Irish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ɸon͈ˈduːa̯rʲ]

Verb

fond·úair

  1. third-person singular preterite deuterotonic of fo·gaib with infixed pronoun d- n: found it

Usage notes

Without the infixed pronoun, the form is fo·fúair. As d- triggers lenition, the expected spelling is fo(n)d·ḟúair. Since ⟨ḟ⟩ is silent in Old Irish, the scribe has used a more “phonetic” spelling with the silent letter omitted.

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.
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