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Irish
Etymology 1
From Old Irish ·fúair (third-person singular preterite conjunct of fo·gaib), from Proto-Celtic *wewore, reduplicated preterite of *wereti.
Pronunciation
Verb
fuair
- past indicative analytic of faigh (undergoes eclipsis rather than lenition after ní)
- Ní bhfuair mé é. ― I didn’t find it.
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Pronunciation
Verb
fuair
- (Munster) second-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of fuaigh
- Fuair rudaí le chéile. ― You stitch things together.
Etymology 3
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Pronunciation
Adjective
fuair
- inflection of fuar:
- masculine vocative/genitive singular
- (archaic) feminine dative singular
Mutation
| Irish mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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| fuair
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fhuair
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bhfuair
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| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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