foúacair

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Old Irish

Etymology

fo- +‎ uss- +‎ gairid

Pronunciation

Verb

fo·úacair (verbal noun fócre)

  1. proclaim, announce
    • 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. 19b6
      Ro·pridchad dúib céssad Críst amal ad·cethe ꝉ fo·rócrad dúib amal bid fíadib no·crochthe.
      Christ’s Passion has been preached to you as though it were seen; or it has been announced to you as if he had been crucified before you.

Conjugation

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Middle Irish: fócraid

Mutation

Mutation of foúacair
radical lenition nasalization
fo·úacair
(pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)
unchanged fo·n-úacair

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

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