rofinnadar

ro- +‎ Proto-Celtic *windeti (compare Welsh gwn (“I know”)), from *wi-n-d- (compare Sanskrit विन्दति (vindati, “finds”)), from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“see, know”).

• IPA^(key):

ro·finnadar (prototonic ·finnadar, verbal noun fius)

1. to find out, discover
   • 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. 30^a3

     Amal nád n-airigther ⁊ nád fintar a ndu·gníther hi suidi, sic ba in fortgidiu ⁊ ba hi temul du·gníth Saul cona muntair intleda ⁊ erelca fri Dauid.

     As what is done in that is not perceived and discovered, so it was covertly and it was in darkness that Saul with his people was making snares and ambushes against David.

2. (in perfect) to know
   • 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. 90^c19

     Ní fetar indam·ṡoírfad Día fa nacc.

     I do not know whether God would deliver me or not.

For more quotations using this term, see Citations:rofinnadar.

• Middle Irish: finnaid
  • Irish: fionn
• Irish: feadair (from perfect conjunct ·fitir)

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “ro·finnadar”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Pedersen, Holger (1913) Vergleichende Grammatik der keltischen Sprachen (in German), volume II, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, →ISBN, pages 522–523