forcumaing

Old Irish

Etymology

From for- +‎ com- +‎ ·icc.

Verb

for·cumaing

1. to come into being
   • 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. 11^c15

     .i. act is ben for·chomnucuir do fortacht viri.

     i.e. but it is the woman who was made to help the man.

2. to happen
   • 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. 97^a5

     .i. cisi aimser hi forcomnactar in gnimai ón?

     What time did the deeds take place?

   • 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. 148^a5

     For·comnacair buith a maicc-som hí Róim. Affamenad-som didiu no·légad a macc in n-heret-sin i mbói...

     It happened that his son was in Rome. He thus desired for his son to read during the time he was there...

Inflection

Complex, class B I present, reduplicated preterite, s subjunctive

		1st sg.	2nd sg.	3rd sg.	1st pl.	2nd pl.	3rd pl.	Passive sg.	Passive pl.
Present indicative	Deut.
	Prot.
Imperfect indicative	Deut.
	Prot.
Preterite	Deut.			for·comnacair; for·comnacuir; for·comnucuir			for·comnactar
	Prot.			·forcomnacair			·forcomnactar
Perfect	Deut.
	Prot.
Future	Deut.
	Prot.
Conditional	Deut.
	Prot.
Present subjunctive	Deut.
	Prot.
Past subjunctive	Deut.			for·cuimsed			far·cuimsitis
	Prot.
Imperative
Verbal noun
Past participle		forcmachtae
Verbal of necessity

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “for-cumaing”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language