arfoím

Old Irish

Etymology

From ar- +‎ fo- +‎ Proto-Celtic *emeti.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [arˈɸoːi̯β̃ʲ]

Verb

ar·foím (conjunct ·eroím)

1. to accept, to receive
   • 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. 6^d14

     Ar is dó arroi·éit-sa gratiam do precept do chách.

     For it is for it that I have received grace, to preach to every one.

2. to accept, to agree

Inflection

Complex, class B I present, t preterite, a future, a subjunctive

		1st sg.	2nd sg.	3rd sg.	1st pl.	2nd pl.	3rd pl.	Passive sg.	Passive pl.
Present indicative	Deut.		ara·foími	ara·foím			ara·foímat, ar·foémat		ara·foímtar
	Prot.			·eroím		·eróemad		·eroímer
Imperfect indicative	Deut.
	Prot.
Preterite	Deut.			ar·foét
	Prot.
Perfect	Deut.	ar·roiéit		ar·roét	ara·roítmar	ar·roíttid	ar·roétatar; ar·roímsat
	Prot.			·arroét
Future	Deut.		ar·foímae
	Prot.
Conditional	Deut.
	Prot.
Present subjunctive	Deut.			ara·foíma	ar·foímam				ara·ḟoímtar
	Prot.			·eroíma			·arroímat; ·eroímet
Past subjunctive	Deut.						ara·foímtis
	Prot.						·eroímtis
Imperative			eroím	íroímed
Verbal noun
Past participle
Verbal of necessity

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
ar·foím	ar·ḟoím	ar·foím pronounced with /-β(ʲ)-/
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), “ar·foím”, 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, pages 511–513