fogaib

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Old Irish

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Etymology

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A suppletive verb. Noticeably, its root word gaibid does not contain this suppletion.

  • Most of the forms are from fo- +‎ gaibid.
  • The preterite forms (·fúair, ·frith etc.) are derived from Proto-Celtic *wourū, with the preterite non-passive forms from the reformed reduplicated preterite *woure and the preterite passive from the past participle *wrītos. These forms are cognate with Ancient Greek εὑρίσκω (heurískō, to find, discover).[1]

Pronunciation

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Verb

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fo·gaib (prototonic ·fagaib, verbal noun fagbál)

  1. to find, to discover
  2. to get, to gain, to obtain

Usage notes

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fo·gaib is an inherently telic verb and cannot be augmented with ro- (or similar). Unaugmented forms are used in contexts typically requiring augmentation.[2]

Inflection

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Descendants

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  • Irish: faigh
  • Manx: fow
  • Scottish Gaelic: faigh

Mutation

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Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
fo·gaib fo·gaib
pronounced with /-ɣ(ʲ)-/
fo·ngaib
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*wer-V-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 414
  2. ^ McCone, Kim (1997) The Early Irish Verb (Maynooth Monographs 1), 2nd edition, Maynooth: An Sagart, →ISBN, page 146

Further reading

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