foálgi

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Old Irish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

fo- +‎ ad- +‎ luig (lie down)

Pronunciation[edit]

Verb[edit]

fo·álgi (prototonic ·fálgi, verbal noun fálgud)

  1. (transitive) to lie low, prostrate
    • 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. 43d5
      Is nini fo·rálaig.
      It is we that it had prostrated.

Conjugation[edit]

Mutation[edit]

Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
fo·álgi unchanged fo·n-álgi
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.