fogaib

Old Irish

Etymology

A suppletive verb. Noticeably, its root word gaibid does not contain this suppletion.

  • Most of the forms are from fo- + gaibid.
  • The preterite forms (·fúair, ·frith etc.) are derived from Proto-Celtic *wereti, with the preterite non-passive forms from the reduplicated preterite *wewore and the preterite passive from the past participle *writos. These forms are cognate with Ancient Greek εὑρίσκω (heurískō, to find, discover).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /foˈɡavʲ/

Verb

fo·gaib (prototonic ·fagaib, verbal noun fagbál)

  1. to find, to discover
  2. to get, to gain, to obtain

Inflection

Descendants

  • Irish: faigh
  • Manx: fow
  • Scottish Gaelic: faigh

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
RadicalLenitionNasalization
fo·gaib fo·gaib
pronounced with /-ɣ(ʲ)-/
fo·ngaib
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

  1. Matasović, Ranko (2009), “*wer-V-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 414

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