forcomai

Old Irish

From for- +‎ con·oí.

for·comai (prototonic ·forcmi)

to preserve
- 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. 9^a22 (Wikisource link)
  Cía for·comam-ni ríagoil sen-Gréc hi scríbunt in dá caractar isnaib ɔsonaib ucut, ro·cruthaigsemmar camaiph immurgu óen charactar – ·f· tar hési ·p· co tinfeth – i n‑epertaib Latinṅdaib.
  Although we preserve the rule of the ancient Greeks in writing the two characters in those consonants, we have, however, formed one character – f instead of p with lenition – in Latin words.

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

		3rd sg.	1st pl.	2nd pl.	3rd pl.	Passive sg.
Present indicative	Deut.	forta·comai (with infixed pronoun da-); fort·chomi (with infixed pronoun t-)	for·comam		for·comat	fordom·chomaither (with infixed pronoun dom-)
Present indicative	Prot.	·forcmi			·forcmat	·forcmaidder

Imperfect indicative	Deut.
Imperfect indicative	Prot.

Preterite	Deut.
Preterite	Prot.	·forcmastar

Perfect	Deut.
Perfect	Prot.

Future	Deut.
Future	Prot.

Conditional	Deut.
Conditional	Prot.

Present subjunctive	Deut.
Present subjunctive	Prot.			·forcmaid

Past subjunctive	Deut.
Past subjunctive	Prot.				·forcmatis

Imperative		forcmad

Verbal noun
Past participle
Verbal of necessity

Mutation of *forcomai*
radical	lenition	nasalization
for·comai	for·chomai	for·comai pronounced with /-ɡ(ʲ)-/

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