rofinnadar

Old Irish[edit]

ro- +‎ Proto-Celtic *windeti (compare Welsh gwn (“I know”)), from *wi-n-d- (compare Sanskrit विन्दति (vindati, “finds”)), from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“see, know”).

ro·finnadar (prototonic ·finnadar, verbal noun fius)

to find out, discover
- 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. 30^a3
  Amal nád n-airigther ⁊ nád fintar a ndu·gníther hi suidi, sic ba in fortgidiu ⁊ ba hi temul du·gníth Saul cona muntair intleda ⁊ erelca fri Dauid.
  As what is done in that is not perceived and discovered, so it was covertly and it was in darkness that Saul with his people was making snares and ambushes against David.
(in perfect) to know
- 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. 90^c19
  Ní fetar indam·ṡoírfad Día fa nacc.
  I do not know whether God would deliver me or not.

For more quotations using this term, see Citations:rofinnadar.

Complex, class B V present, s future, s subjunctive

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