foceird
Old Irish
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editThe deuterotonic and future stems are from fo- + Proto-Celtic *kerdeti (“to put, lay, move”) (compare Middle Welsh kerðet, Welsh cerdded (“walk”), Breton kerzhet (“walk”), Cornish kerdhes (“walk”)), from Proto-Indo-European *kerd- (“to swing”) (compare Ancient Greek κραδαίνω (kradaínō, “to swing”), Latin cardō (“hinge”), Old High German scerdo (“hinge”)).[1]
The prototonic forms of the present stem (·cuirethar etc.) are thought to be denominative from cor (“putting, casting, throwing”), from which Matasović reconstructs Proto-Celtic *koros (“act of putting, casting, a throw”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to turn”).[2] Le Mair however finds such an immediately denominative origin to be dubious, and reconstructs a Proto-Celtic *korītor instead. She relates this verb to a root *kerH- (“to throw”) rather than *(s)ker-.[3]
See ro·lá for the etymology of the perfective forms.
Pronunciation
editVerb
editfo·ceird (prototonic ·cuirethar, verbal noun cor)
- to put, place, set
- 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. 68b9
- cia beith ar n‑acathar nech inna rétu inducbaidi in betha so, arnach·corathar i mmoth ⁊ machthad dia seirc ⁊ dia n‑accubur
- though it be that someone sees the glorious things of this world, that he may not be put in stupor and admiration by love for them and by desire for them
- 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. 68b9
- to throw, cast
Conjugation
editThis verb suppletes three verb roots belonging to three separate conjugation classes.
- The deuterotonic forms, dominated by direct conjugations of fo·ceird itself, are class B I, and form an á-preterite, s-future (the s obscured by fusion with the root cluster -rd-), and s-subjunctive.
- The prototonic forms in ·cuirethar and the like are class A II (specifically of the W2b subtype), and like almost all weak verbs form an s-preterite and a-subjunctive. The prototonic future surprisingly is derived from the deuterotonic stem instead.
- The perfective forms in ·lá and the like are class A III and form an s-perfect and an a-subjunctive.
Derived terms
editDescendants
editMutation
editOld Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
fo·ceird | fo·cheird | fo·ceird pronounced with /-ɡ(ʲ)-/ |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References
edit- ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*kerd-o-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 202-203
- ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*koro-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 217
- ^ Esther Le Mair (2011 September 30) Secondary Verbs in Old Irish: A comparative-historical study of patterns of verbal derivation in the Old Irish Glosses, Galway: National University of Ireland, ·cuirethar, pages 188-190
Further reading
edit- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “fo·ceird”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 cor”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Old Irish terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Old Irish terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *(s)ker- (turn)
- Old Irish terms derived from Proto-Celtic
- Old Irish terms prefixed with fo-
- Old Irish terms inherited from Proto-Celtic
- Old Irish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Old Irish lemmas
- Old Irish verbs
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- Old Irish complex verbs
- Old Irish class B I present verbs
- Old Irish class W2b present verbs
- Old Irish class A III present verbs
- Old Irish á preterite verbs
- Old Irish s preterite verbs
- Old Irish s future verbs
- Old Irish s subjunctive verbs
- Old Irish a subjunctive verbs
- Old Irish suppletive verbs