forcomai

Old Irish

Etymology

From for- +‎ con·oí.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ɸorˈkoβ̃ɨ]

Verb

for·comai (prototonic ·forcmi)

1. to preserve
   • c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 9^a22 (Wikisource link)

     Cía for·comam-ni ríagoil sen-Gréc hi scríbunt in dá caractar isnaib ɔsonaib ucut, ro·cruthaigsemmar camaiph immurgu óen charactar – ·f· tar hési ·p· co tinfeth – i n‑epertaib Latinṅdaib.

     Although we preserve the rule of the ancient Greeks in writing the two charac­ters in those conso­nants, we have, however, formed one character – f instead of p with lenition – in Latin words.

Conjugation

Complex, class A III present, s preterite, a subjunctive

		1st sg.	2nd sg.	3rd sg.	1st pl.	2nd pl.	3rd pl.	Passive sg.	Passive pl.
Present indicative	Deut.			forta·comai (with infixed pronoun da-); fort·chomi (with infixed pronoun t-)	for·comam		for·comat	fordom·chomaither (with infixed pronoun dom-)
	Prot.			·forcmi			·forcmat	·forcmaidder
Imperfect indicative	Deut.
	Prot.
Preterite	Deut.
	Prot.			·forcmastar
Perfect	Deut.
	Prot.
Future	Deut.
	Prot.
Conditional	Deut.
	Prot.
Present subjunctive	Deut.
	Prot.					·forcmaid
Past subjunctive	Deut.
	Prot.						·forcmatis
Imperative				forcmad
Verbal noun
Past participle
Verbal of necessity

Descendants

• Middle Irish: forcmaid

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
for·comai	for·chomai	for·comai pronounced with /-ɡ(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), “for·comai”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language