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Old Irish
Etymology
for- + Proto-Celtic *winati (“enclose (with a wattle fence)”), from Proto-Indo-European *wyeh₁- (“to weave, plait”). The Old Irish simplex *fenaid is unattested.[1]
Pronunciation
Verb
for·fen (verbal noun forbae)
- to finish, to complete
- to fulfill, to achieve
Inflection
Complex, class B IV present, reduplicated preterite, a subjunctive
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for·fiun
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for·fen
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for·fenar
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·farbanar
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for·ruchui
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far·cuadh (normalized for·cúad)
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·forchui
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for·fiat
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·farfia
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forbae
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foirbthe
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| Verbal of necessity
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Derived terms
Descendants
Mutation
Mutation of forfen
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nasalization
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for·ḟen
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for·fen
pronounced with /-β(ʲ)-/
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Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
References
- ^ Schumacher, Stefan, Schulze-Thulin, Britta (2004) “Urkelt. *-wi-na- ‘flechten, biegen’”, in 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, page 688f.
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