foirbthe

Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɸorʲβʲθʲe]

Participle

foirbthe

1. past participle of for·fen

Adjective

foirbthe

1. perfect
   • 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. 14^a8

     Níba cuit adíll ⁊ cucuibsi, acht ainfa lib, ar nídad foirbthi-si; it foirbthi immurgu Macidonii.

     It will not be merely a passing visit to you pl, but I will remain with you, for you are not perfect; the Macedonians, however, are perfect.

   • 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. 27^a24

     Nachib·mided .i. nachib·berar i smachtu rechta fetarlicce, inna ndig et a mbíad, inna llíthu et a ssapati, act bad foirbthe far n‑iress.

     Let him not judge you, i.e. do not be borne into the institutions of the Law of the Old Testament, into their drink and their food, into their festivals and their sabbaths; but let your faith be perfect.

Declension

io/iā-stem
Singular	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	foirbthe	foirbthe	foirbthe
Vocative	foirbthi
Accusative	foirbthe	foirbthi
Genitive	foirbthi	foirbthe	foirbthi
Dative	foirbthiu	foirbthi	foirbthiu
Plural	Masculine	Feminine/neuter
Nominative	foirbthi	foirbthi
Vocative	foirbthi foirbthiu*
Accusative	foirbthi foirbthiu*
Genitive	foirbthe
Dative	foirbthib
Notes	* when substantivized

Derived terms

• foirbthetu m (“perfection”)
• foirbthigidir (“to perfect”)

Descendants

• Irish: foirfe
• Scottish Gaelic: foirfe

Mutation

Mutation of foirbthe

radical	lenition	nasalization
foirbthe	ḟoirbthe	foirbthe 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), “1 foirbthe”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language