forcumaing
Old Irish
Etymology
From for- + com- + ·icc.
Verb
for·cumaing
- to come into being
- 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. 11c15
- .i. act is ben for·chomnucuir do fortacht viri.
- i.e. but it is the woman who was made to help the man.
- 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. 11c15
- to happen
- 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. 97a5
- .i. cisi aimser hi forcomnactar in gnimai ón?
- What time did the deeds take place?
- 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. 148a5
- For·comnacair buith a maicc-som hí Róim. Affamenad-som didiu no·légad a macc in n-heret-sin i mbói...
- It happened that his son was in Rome. He thus desired for his son to read during the time he was there...
- 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. 97a5
Inflection
Complex, class B I present, reduplicated preterite, s subjunctive
| 1st sg. | 2nd sg. | 3rd sg. | 1st pl. | 2nd pl. | 3rd pl. | Passive sg. | Passive pl. | ||
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| Present indicative | Deut. | ||||||||
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| Imperfect indicative | Deut. | ||||||||
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| Preterite | Deut. | for·comnacair; for·comnacuir; for·comnucuir | for·comnactar | ||||||
| Prot. | ·forcomnacair | ·forcomnactar | |||||||
| 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. | for·cuimsed | far·cuimsitis | ||||||
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| Past participle | forcmachtae | ||||||||
| Verbal of necessity | |||||||||
Further reading
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “for-cumaing”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language