fogella

Old Irish

Etymology

From fo- +‎ gellaid (“to pledge”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ɸoˈɡʲel͈a]

Verb

fo·gella (prototonic ·fuiglea, verbal noun fugell)

1. to appeal to the judgement of, to submit a case to

Inflection

Complex, class A I present, s preterite, a subjunctive

		1st sg.	2nd sg.	3rd sg.	1st pl.	2nd pl.	3rd pl.	Passive sg.	Passive pl.
Present indicative	Deut.
	Prot.			·fuigli (normalized ·fuiglea)					·fuigliter
Imperfect indicative	Deut.				fo·gelmais		fo·gelltais
	Prot.
Preterite	Deut.						fo·gellsat
	Prot.						·fuiglessat
Perfect	Deut.							fom·ruigled
	Prot.
Future	Deut.
	Prot.
Conditional	Deut.
	Prot.
Present subjunctive	Deut.
	Prot.
Past subjunctive	Deut.
	Prot.			·fuigled
Imperative
Verbal noun		fugell; fugall
Past participle
Verbal of necessity

Descendants

• Middle Irish: fuiglid (“to pronounce (judgement)”)
  • Irish: fuighill (“to pronounce (judgement)”)

Mutation

Mutation of fogella

radical	lenition	nasalization
fo·gella	fo·gella pronounced with /-ɣ(ʲ)-/	fo·ngella

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), “fo-gella”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language