foirbthe
Old Irish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈforʲvʲθʲe/
Participle
foirbthe
- past participle of for·fen
Adjective
foirbthe
- perfect
- 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. 27a24
- Nachib·mided .i. nachib·berar i smachtu rechta fetarlicce, inna ndig et a mbíad, inna llíthu et a ssapati, act bad foirbthe far n‑iress.
- Let him not judge you, i.e. do not be borne into the institutions of the Law of the Old Testament, into their drink and their food, into their festivals and their sabbaths; but let your faith be perfect.
- 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. 27a24
Declension
| io/iā-stem | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter |
| Nominative | foirbthe | foirbthe | foirbthe |
| Vocative | foirbthi | ||
| Accusative | foirbthe | foirbthi | |
| Genitive | foirbthi | foirbthe | foirbthi |
| Dative | foirbthiu | foirbthi | foirbthiu |
| Plural | Masculine | Feminine/neuter | |
| Nominative | foirbthi | foirbthi | |
| Vocative | foirbthi foirbthiu* | ||
| Accusative | foirbthi foirbthiu* | ||
| Genitive | foirbthe | ||
| Dative | foirbthib | ||
| Notes | * when substantivized | ||
Descendants
- Irish: foirfe
- Scottish Gaelic: foirfe
Mutation
| Old Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
| foirbthe | ḟoirbthe | foirbthe pronounced with /v(ʲ)-/ |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
Further reading
- Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “1 foirbthe”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language