foilsigidir

Old Irish

FWOTD – 20 June 2017

Etymology

follus (“manifest, evident”) (from Proto-Celtic *uɸoluxsus, from Proto-Indo-European *lewk- (“bright, shining”)) + -igidir.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɸol͈ʲsʲiɣʲiðʲirʲ]

Verb

foilsigidir (prototonic ·foilsigedar, verbal noun foilsigud)

1. to reveal, make public
2. to manifest, make clear
3. to demonstrate, represent

For quotations using this term, see Citations:foilsigidir.

Conjugation

Simple, class A II present, s preterite, a subjunctive, deponent

		1st sg.	2nd sg.	3rd sg.	1st pl.	2nd pl.	3rd pl.	Passive sg.	Passive pl.
Present indicative	Abs.			foilsigidir, foillsigthir; foilsigthi (with suffixed pronoun -i (“it”))		foilsigthe
	Conj.			·foilsigedar
	Rel.			foilsigedar			foilsigdde (active form)
Imperfect indicative						·foilsigthe
Preterite	Abs.							foilsigthe	foilsigthi
	Conj.
	Rel.
Perfect	Deut.						ro·foilsigsetar; ru·fáilsigset (active form); ɔidro·foilsigsetar (with co (“until”) and infixed pronoun id- (“it”))		ro·foilsigthea
	Prot.
Future	Abs.
	Conj.
	Rel.
Conditional
Present subjunctive	Abs.			foilsigidir		foilsigthe
	Conj.			·foilsigedar
	Rel.			foilsigedar
Past subjunctive
Imperative			foilsigthe
Verbal noun		foilsigud, fóilsigud, foilsiguth, failsigud; foilsichtho (genitive)
Past participle		foilsigthe, failsichthe, foilsichthe
Verbal of necessity		foilsigthi

Descendants

• Middle Irish: foillsigid
  • Irish: foilsigh
  • Scottish Gaelic: foillsich

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
foilsigidir	ḟoilsigidir	foilsigidir pronounced with /β(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

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