fógair

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Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Irish fócraid, from Old Irish fo·úacair, from gairid (to call) and the preverbs fo- (under) and as- (up, off), which is from Proto-Celtic *garyeti, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵh₂r̥-yéti, the present tense of Proto-Indo-European *ǵeh₂r- (to call, to intone), cognate with Welsh garddu (to squeeze, agitate, groan) and Ossetian азӕлын (azælyn, to reverberate).[1][2][3]

Pronunciation

Verb

fógair (present analytic fógraíonn, future analytic fógróidh, verbal noun fógairt, past participle fógartha)

  1. proclaim, declare
  2. advertise

Conjugation

Mutation

Mutated forms of fógair
radical lenition eclipsis
fógair fhógair bhfógair

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

  1. ^ Schumacher, Stefan, Schulze-Thulin, Britta (2004) Die keltischen Primärverben: ein vergleichendes, etymologisches und morphologisches Lexikon [The Celtic Primary Verbs: A comparative, etymological and morphological lexicon] (Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft; 110) (in German), Innsbruck: Institut für Sprachen und Literaturen der Universität Innsbruck, →ISBN, pages 331-33
  2. ^ Rix, Helmut, editor (2001), “*ǵar-”, in Lexikon der indogermanischen Verben [Lexicon of Indo-European Verbs] (in German), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, →ISBN, page 161
  3. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*gar-yo-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN
  4. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 29

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