folúathar
Old Irish
Etymology
Seemingly fo- (“sub-”) + luïthir (“to move”).
Verb
fo·lúathar
- to fly
- 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. 140b8
- fu·luinn
- that I would fly (glosses Latin avolare)
- c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 146b11
- fo·llúur ― glosses Latin volo (“I fly”)
- 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. 140b8
Inflection
Complex, class A III present, s preterite, deponent
1st sg. | 2nd sg. | 3rd sg. | 1st pl. | 2nd pl. | 3rd pl. | Passive sg. | Passive pl. | ||
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Present indicative | Deut. | fo·llúur | fo·luatar | ||||||
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Imperfect indicative | Deut. | fu·luïnn | |||||||
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Preterite | Deut. | fo·luastar | |||||||
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Perfect | Deut. | ||||||||
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Future | Deut. | ||||||||
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Conditional | Deut. | ||||||||
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Present subjunctive | Deut. | ||||||||
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Past subjunctive | Deut. | ||||||||
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Mutation
Old Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
fo·lúathar also fo·llúathar | fo·lúathar pronounced with /-l(ʲ)-/ | unchanged |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “fo-lúathar”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language