fonoí

Old Irish

Etymology

Unknown.

Verb

fo·noí (verbal noun fuine)

to cook, bake, roast

Inflection

Complex, class A III present, s preterite
		active						passive
		singular			plural			singular	plural
		1^st	2^nd	3^rd	1^st	2^nd	3^rd	singular	plural
present indicative	deut.	fu·rruu (misspelling of fu·nuü)						fo·nither
present indicative	prot.

imperfect indicative	deut.
imperfect indicative	prot.

preterite	deut.						fo·nóiset		fo·nnuitha
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		fuine
past participle		fonaithe
verbal of necessity

Descendants

⇒ Middle Irish: fuinid (< verbal noun)
- Irish: fuin
- Scottish Gaelic: fuin
- Manx: fuinn

Mutation

Mutation of *fo·noí*
radical	lenition	nasalization
fo·noí also fo·nnoí	fo·noí pronounced with /n-/	fo·noí also fo·nnoí

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-noí”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language