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. 19^b6

     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

		1st sg.	2nd sg.	3rd sg.	1st pl.	2nd pl.	3rd pl.	Passive sg.	Passive pl.
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

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
fo·úacair (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)	unchanged	fo·n-úacair
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “fúacair, fo-úacair, fócair”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Pedersen, Holger (1913) Vergleichende Grammatik der keltischen Sprachen (in German), volume II, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, →ISBN, § 736.9, page 535