fodaim

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *uɸodamyeti (compare Welsh goddef). By surface analysis, fo- +‎ daimid.

Pronunciation

Deuterotonic form:

• IPA^(key): [ɸoˈdaβ̃ʲ]

Prototonic form:

• IPA^(key): /ˈɸoðəβ̃ʲ/, [ˈɸoðɨβ̃ʲ]

Verb

fo·daim (prototonic ·fodaim, verbal noun fodaitiu)

1. to suffer, to endure
   • 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. 2^c10

     ní dunaib hí fo·daimet a n‑imdibe colnide tantum mani comolnatar a n‑imdibe rúnde uitiorum

     not to those who suffer the carnal circumcision only unless they fulfill the mystical circumcision of vices

2. to allow
   • c. 815-840, “The Monastery of Tallaght”, in Edward J. Gwynn, Walter J. Purton, transl., Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, volume 29, Royal Irish Academy, published 1911-1912, paragraph 85, pages 115-179:

     Nicon·fordamar suide nó ligi do fir díob con·gabsat an deorad iterum.

     [Adamnan] did not allow them to sit or lie down unless they receive the stranger again.

For more quotations using this term, see Citations:fodaim.

Inflection

Complex, class B II present, á preterite, a future, a subjunctive

		1st sg.	2nd sg.	3rd sg.	1st pl.	2nd pl.	3rd pl.	Passive sg.	Passive pl.
Present indicative	Deut.	fo·daimim	fo·daimi		fo·daimem	fo·daimid	fo·daimet
	Prot.		·fodmai	·fodaim			·fodmat
Imperfect indicative	Deut.
	Prot.
Preterite	Deut.
	Prot.
Perfect	Deut.	fo·rodamar, fo·rrodamar		fo·rodamair, fu·rodamair			fu·rodamnatar, fo·rodamnatar, fo·rodmotár
	Prot.			·fordámair
Future	Deut.		fo·didmae				fo·didmat
	Prot.			·fuidema
Conditional	Deut.			fo·didmed
	Prot.
Present subjunctive	Deut.	fo·dam		fu·dama					fo·damtar
	Prot.
Past subjunctive	Deut.						fo·damtis
	Prot.	·fodmain; ·fordamainn (ro-form)
Imperative
Verbal noun		foditiu, fodaitiu
Past participle
Verbal of necessity

Mutation

Deuterotonic form:

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
fo·daim	fo·daim pronounced with /-ð(ʲ)-/	fo·ndaim
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Prototonic form:

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
·fodaim	·ḟodaim	·fodaim 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), “fodaim”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language