foruimi

Old Irish

Etymology

From fo- +‎ Proto-Celtic *rimīti (“to bring to rest”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rem- (“to rest”); compare Sanskrit रामयति (rāmayati, “to cause to stay, set at rest”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ɸoˈr͈uβ̃ʲi]

Verb

fo·ruimi (prototonic ·fuirmi, verbal noun fuirmiud)

1. to place, put
   • 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. 74^c20

     Húare ro·comallada inna imneda ⁊ fo·ruirmed cenn forsnaib cotarsnaib du·rairngirt-siu, is fíri{ri}én trá fuä n-indas sin tabart díglae foraibsom.

     Because the troubles have been fulfilled, and an end has been put to the adversities that you sg have promised, it is just, then, to inflict vengeance on them in that way.

Conjugation

Complex, class A II 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.			·fuirmi
Imperfect indicative	Deut.
	Prot.
Preterite	Deut.
	Prot.
Perfect	Deut.	fo·rurmius		fo·ruirim, fo·rruirim, fo·rruim, fo·rruib				fo·ruirmed
	Prot.
Future	Deut.
	Prot.
Conditional	Deut.
	Prot.
Present subjunctive	Deut.
	Prot.
Past subjunctive	Deut.
	Prot.						fu·rruimtis (ro-form)	·fuirmithe{a}
Imperative
Verbal noun		fuirmiud
Past participle
Verbal of necessity

Derived terms

• comḟuirmiud
• fo·ruimi cenn for (“to put an end to”)

Mutation

Mutation of foruimi

radical	lenition	nasalization
fo·ruimi also fo·rruimi	fo·ruimi pronounced with /-r(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·ruimi, ·fuirmi”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language