folúathar

Old Irish

Etymology

Seemingly fo- (“sub-”) +‎ luïthir (“to move”).

Verb

fo·lúathar

1. to fly
   • 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. 140^b8

     fu·luinn

     that I would fly (glosses Latin avolare)

   • c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 146^b11

     fo·llúur ― glosses Latin volo (“I fly”)

Inflection

Complex, class A III present, s preterite, deponent

		1st sg.	2nd sg.	3rd sg.	1st pl.	2nd pl.	3rd pl.	Passive sg.	Passive pl.
Present indicative	Deut.	fo·llúur					fo·luatar
	Prot.
Imperfect indicative	Deut.	fu·luïnn
	Prot.
Preterite	Deut.			fo·luastar
	Prot.
Perfect	Deut.
	Prot.
Future	Deut.
	Prot.
Conditional	Deut.
	Prot.
Present subjunctive	Deut.
	Prot.
Past subjunctive	Deut.
	Prot.
Imperative
Verbal noun
Past participle
Verbal of necessity

Mutation

Mutation of folúathar

radical	lenition	nasalization
fo·lúathar also fo·llúathar	fo·lúathar pronounced with /-l(ʲ)-/	unchanged

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-lúathar”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language