fochell

Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɸo.xʲəl͈/, [ˈɸo.xʲel͈]

Noun

fochell f (genitive foichle)

1. verbal noun of fo·cíallathar: attention, heed
   • 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. 15^c24

     .i. is tacaír dúnn a chaínfochell asar corp.

     It is proper for us to pay good heed to Him out of [while in? DIL] our body.

2. wage

Inflection

Feminine ā-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	fochellL	—	—
Vocative	fochellL	—	—
Accusative	fochillN	—	—
Genitive	foichleH	—	—
Dative	fochillL	—	—
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

• Middle Irish: foichell, faichell
  • Irish: faichill
  • Manx: faill
  • Scottish Gaelic: faiceall

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
fochell	ḟochell	fochell pronounced with /β(ʲ)-/
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), “1 fochell”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 fochell”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language