fógair

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Irish[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

From Middle Irish fócraid, from Old Irish fo·úacair, from gairid (to call) and the preverbs fo- (under) and as- (up, off), which is from Proto-Celtic *garyeti, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵh₂r̥-yéti, the present tense of Proto-Indo-European *ǵeh₂r- (to call, to intone), cognate with Welsh garddu (to squeeze, agitate, groan) and Ossetian азӕлын (azælyn, to reverberate).[1][2][3]

Pronunciation[edit]

Verb[edit]

fógair (present analytic fógraíonn, future analytic fógróidh, verbal noun fógairt, past participle fógartha)

  1. proclaim, declare
  2. advertise

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Mutation[edit]

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
fógair fhógair bhfógair
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References[edit]

  1. ^ Schumacher, Stefan, Schulze-Thulin, Britta (2004) Die keltischen Primärverben: ein vergleichendes, etymologisches und morphologisches Lexikon [The Celtic Primary Verbs: A comparative, etymological and morphological lexicon] (Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft; 110) (in German), Innsbruck: Institut für Sprachen und Literaturen der Universität Innsbruck, →ISBN, pages 331-33
  2. ^ Rix, Helmut, editor (2001), “*ǵar-”, in Lexikon der indogermanischen Verben [Lexicon of Indo-European Verbs] (in German), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, →ISBN, page 161
  3. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*gar-yo-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN
  4. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 29

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