forcain
Old Irish
editEtymology
editPronunciation
editDeuterotonic:
Prototonic:
Verb
editfor·cain (prototonic ·forcain, verbal noun forcital)
- to teach, to instruct
- 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. 29a12
- indhí pridchite et for·chanat bréthir Dǽ
- those who preach and teach God’s word
- 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. 114b11
- in popul for·cechnae-siu
- the people whom you sg will instruct
- 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. 29a12
Inflection
editComplex, class B I present, reduplicated preterite, a future, a subjunctive
1st sg. | 2nd sg. | 3rd sg. | 1st pl. | 2nd pl. | 3rd pl. | Passive sg. | Passive pl. | ||
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Present indicative | Deut. | for·canim, for·cun | for·cain | for·canat | for·canar | for·cantar | |||
Prot. | ·forcain | ||||||||
Imperfect indicative | Deut. | for·canainn | |||||||
Prot. | |||||||||
Preterite | Deut. | ||||||||
Prot. | |||||||||
Perfect | Deut. | for·roíchan | for·roíchan | for·roíchain (misspelled for·rochain in Ml. 68b8) | for·roichechnatar | ||||
Prot. | |||||||||
Future | Deut. | for·cechan | for·cechnae | for·cechna | |||||
Prot. | |||||||||
Conditional | Deut. | ||||||||
Prot. | |||||||||
Present subjunctive | Deut. | for·cane | for·cana | for·canit | |||||
Prot. | ·farcan | ·forcane | ·farcanat | ||||||
Past subjunctive | Deut. | for·canainn | |||||||
Prot. | |||||||||
Imperative | forcanad | forcanid | |||||||
Verbal noun | forcital | ||||||||
Past participle | foircthe | ||||||||
Verbal of necessity | foircthi; forcanti |
Mutation
editDeuterotonic
Old Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
for·cain | for·chain | for·cain pronounced with /-ɡ(ʲ)-/ |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Prototonic
Old Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
·forcain | ·ḟorcain | ·forcain pronounced with /-β(ʲ)-/ |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading
edit- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “forcain”, 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, page 480
Categories:
- Old Irish terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Old Irish terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *keh₂n-
- Old Irish terms prefixed with for-
- Old Irish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Old Irish lemmas
- Old Irish verbs
- Old Irish terms with quotations
- Old Irish complex verbs
- Old Irish class B I present verbs
- Old Irish reduplicated preterite verbs
- Old Irish a future verbs
- Old Irish a subjunctive verbs