formuinethar

Old Irish

FWOTD – 15 September 2023

Etymology

From for- +‎ muinethar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ɸorˈmunʲeθar]

Verb

for·muinethar (verbal noun format)

1. to envy
   • c. 8th or 9th century, Codex Laurentinus, Plut. XLV, Cod. 14, s. X, folio 6b, glossing Virgil's Eclogues 3:103:

     far·muinethar

     fascinat (“envies”)

   • 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. 19^d27, (glossing aemulantur vobis at Galatians 4:17)

     nob·éttigetar .i. seodoapostoli .i. fordob·moinetar, ní ar bar seirc

     they are jealous of you i.e. the pseudo-apostles i.e. they envy you, it is not for love of you

   • 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. 17^b16

     a for·ménatar

     when they envied

Conjugation

Complex, class B II present, reduplicated preterite, deponent

		1st sg.	2nd sg.	3rd sg.	1st pl.	2nd pl.	3rd pl.	Passive sg.	Passive pl.
Present indicative	Deut.			far·muinethar
	Prot.						for·moinetar
Imperfect indicative	Deut.
	Prot.
Preterite	Deut.
	Prot.						for·ménatar
Perfect	Deut.
	Prot.
Future	Deut.
	Prot.
Conditional	Deut.
	Prot.
Present subjunctive	Deut.
	Prot.
Past subjunctive	Deut.
	Prot.
Imperative
Verbal noun		format
Past participle
Verbal of necessity

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
for·muinethar also for·mmuinethar	for·muinethar pronounced with /-β̃(ʲ)-/	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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