formuinethar

Old Irish

FWOTD – 15 September 2023

Etymology

From for- +‎ muinethar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɸoɾˈmu.nʲə.θəɾ/
  • (Blasse) [ɸoɾˈmu.nʲe.θaɾ]
  • (Griffith) [ɸoɾˈmu.nʲə.θəɾ]

Verb

for·muinethar (verbal noun format)

1. to envy
   • c. 8th or 9th century, Codex Laurentinus, Plut. XLV, Cod. 14, s. X, folio 6b, glossing Virgil's Eclogues 3:103:

     far·muinethar

     fascinat (“envies”)

   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 19^d27, (glossing aemulantur vobis at Galatians 4:17)

     nob·éttigetar .i. seodoapostoli .i. fordob·moinetar, ní ar bar seirc

     they are jealous of you i.e. the pseudo-apostles i.e. they envy you, it is not for love of you

   • 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. 17^b16

     a for·ménatar

     when they envied

Conjugation

Complex, class B II present, reduplicated preterite, deponent

		active						passive
		singular			plural			singular	plural
		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
present indicative	deut.			far·muinethar
	prot.						for·moinetar
imperfect indicative	deut.
	prot.
preterite	deut.
	prot.						for·ménatar
perfect	deut.
	prot.
future	deut.
	prot.
conditional	deut.
	prot.
present subjunctive	deut.
	prot.
past subjunctive	deut.
	prot.
imperative
verbal noun		format
past participle
verbal of necessity

Mutation

Mutation of for·muinethar

radical	lenition	nasalization
for·muinethar	for·muinethar pronounced with /β̃-/	for·muinethar

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

References

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “for·moinethar”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language