foúacair

Old Irish

Etymology

fo- + uss- + gairid

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [foˈhuːa̯ɡɨrʲ]

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

  • ar·focair

Descendants

  • Middle Irish: fócraid
    • Irish: fógair
    • Manx: fogrey
    • Scottish Gaelic: fuagair

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
RadicalLenitionNasalization
fo·úacair unchanged fo·n-úacair
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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