fochell

Old Irish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɸo.xʲəl͈/, [ˈɸo.xʲel͈]

Noun

fochell f (genitive foichle)

  1. verbal noun of fo·cíallathar: attention, heed
    • 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. 15c24
      .i. is tacaír dúnn a chaínfochell asar corp.
      It is proper for us to pay good heed to Him out of [while in? DIL] our body.
  2. wage

Inflection

Feminine ā-stem
singular dual plural
nominative fochellL
vocative fochellL
accusative fochillN
genitive foichleH
dative fochillL
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

  • Middle Irish: foichell, faichell

Mutation

Mutation of fochell
radical lenition nasalization
fochell ḟochell fochell
pronounced with /β̃-/

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

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