fogní

See also: fogni

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *uɸogniyeti. By surface analysis, fo- +‎ gníid.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɸoˈɡʲnʲiː/

Verb

fo·gní (verbal noun fognam)

1. to serve [with accusative or do]

Conjugation

Complex, class A III present, reduplicated s preterite, é future, e subjunctive

		active						passive
		singular			plural			singular	plural
		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
present indicative	deut.			fo·gní			fo·gniat	fo·gníther	fo·gníter
	prot.						·fognat
imperfect indicative	deut.
	prot.			·fognad
preterite	deut.
	prot.
perfect	deut.			fo·ruigéni		fo·ruigénsid	fo·ruigénsat
	prot.			·forgéni	·forgénsam
future	deut.	fu·gén		fo·géna
	prot.
conditional	deut.
	prot.
present subjunctive	deut.				fo·gnem	fo·gneith
	prot.			·fogna
past subjunctive	deut.
	prot.
imperative				fognad		fognid
verbal noun		fognam, fognad
past participle
verbal of necessity

Quotations

• 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. 44^c9

  Inna n-ascad .i. inna námat són as·berat bid cobuir dó in Día [dïa] forgéni ⁊ hi ru·frescachae. Híróin són immurgu.

  Of the rivals, that is to say of the enemies who say that the God whom he served, and in whom he hoped, will be a help to him. That is irony however.

Derived terms

• ar·fogni
• fognamaid
• fognamthid
• imm·fogni

Descendants

• Middle Irish: fognaid
  • Irish: fóin
  • Scottish Gaelic: foghain

Mutation

Mutation of fo·gní

radical	lenition	nasalization
fo·gní	fo·gní pronounced with /ɣʲ-/	fo·ngní

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “fo·gní”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Pedersen, Holger (1913), Vergleichende Grammatik der keltischen Sprachen [Comparative Grammar of the Celtic Languages] (in German), volume II, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, →ISBN, § 744.4, page 543