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foálgi

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Old Irish

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Etymology

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fo- +‎ ad- +‎ luig (lie down)

Pronunciation

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Verb

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fo·álgi (prototonic ·fálgi, verbal noun fálgud)

  1. (transitive) to lie low, prostrate
    • 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. 43d5
      Is nini fo·rálaig.
      It is we that it had prostrated.

Conjugation

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Mutation

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Mutation of foálgi
radical lenition nasalization
fo·álgi
(pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)
unchanged fo·n-álgi

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