fomuinethar

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• fo·moinethar

Etymology

From fo- +‎ ·muinethar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ɸoˈmunʲeθar]

Verb

fo·muinethar (verbal noun foimtiu) (transitive)

1. to take heed (of)
   • 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. 28^c9

     Fo·mentar mo rígtin-se; mos riccub-sa.

     May you take heed of my arrival; I shall arrive soon.

   • 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. 33^a15

     Fomnid-si, a phopul nuiednissi, ar ce dud·rónath ní di maith fri maccu Israhél…

     Take heed, O people of the New Testament, for although some good has been done to the children of Israel…

2. to be on one's guard against, beware of

Conjugation

Complex, class B II present, a subjunctive, deponent

		1st sg.	2nd sg.	3rd sg.	1st pl.	2nd pl.	3rd pl.	Passive sg.	Passive pl.
Present indicative	Deut.
	Prot.
Imperfect indicative	Deut.
	Prot.
Preterite	Deut.
	Prot.
Perfect	Deut.
	Prot.
Future	Deut.
	Prot.
Conditional	Deut.
	Prot.
Present subjunctive	Deut.		fo·mentar			fo·menaid	fu·mmenatar
	Prot.
Past subjunctive	Deut.
	Prot.
Imperative			fomnae			fomnid
Verbal noun		foimtiu
Past participle
Verbal of necessity

Mutation

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

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “fo-moinethar”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Pedersen, Holger (1913) Vergleichende Grammatik der keltischen Sprachen (in German), volume II, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, →ISBN, page 581