féchem

Old Irish

Etymology

fíach (“debt”) +‎ -em

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɸʲeːxʲəβ̃]

Noun

féchem m (genitive fécheman, nominative plural féchemain)

1. debtor
   • 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. 32^a21

     at féchem dom et da·lugub són

     you sg are a debtor to me and I will forgive that

Declension

Masculine n-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	féchem	féchemainL	féchemain
Vocative	féchem	féchemainL	féchemnaH
Accusative	féchemainN	féchemainL	féchemnaH
Genitive	féchemon, fécheman	féchemon, féchemanL	féchemon, féchemanN
Dative	féchemainL, féchemL	féchemnaib	féchemnaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Mutation

Mutation of féchem

radical	lenition	nasalization
féchem	ḟéchem	féchem pronounced with /β(ʲ)-/

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), “féchem”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language