fodord

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Old Irish

Etymology

From fo- +‎ dord.

Pronunciation

Noun

fodord m (genitive foduirt)

  1. muttering, murmuring, complaining
    • 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. 97d10
      Is peccad díabul lesom .i. fodord doïb di dommatu, ⁊ du·fúairthed ní leu fora sáith din main, ⁊ todlugud inna féulæ ɔ amairis nánda·tibérad Día doïb, ⁊ nach coimnacuir ⁊ issi dano insin ind frescissiu co fochaid.
      It is a double sin in his opinion, i.e. the murmuring by them of want, although there remained some of the manna with them upon their satiety, and demanding the meat with faithlessness that God would not give it to them, and that he could not; therefore that is the expectation with testing.

Declension

Masculine o-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative fodord
Vocative foduirt
Accusative fodordN
Genitive foduirtL
Dative fodordL
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

  • Irish: fodhord

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
fodord ḟodord fodord
pronounced with /β(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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