forrorcongrad

Old Irish

Alternative forms

  • for·ruchongrad

Etymology

The morphology of this form is unusual. Although it is common in Old Irish for for- + ro- to surface as fo-ro-r-,[1] the double rr in this word and in for·rorbris (“whom he had defeated”) at Ml. 67b24 is harder to explain. Both forms are relative, so Stokes and Strachan suggest the rr shows the assimilation of the relative marker n- to ro-.[2] Strachan and Bergin, on the other hand, suggest it is a contamination of *for·rochongrad (without the above-mentioned intrusion of ro- into for-) with *fo·rorcongrad (with it).[3]

Verb

for·rorcongrad

  1. passive singular perfect deuterotonic of for·congair (“to order”)

References

  1. ^ Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940) [1909], D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, translation of Handbuch des Alt-Irischen (in German), →ISBN, § 529, page 341; reprinted 2017
  2. ^ Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, editors (1903), Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus, volume II, Cambridge University Press, page 193, footnote c; reprinted by Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1975
  3. ^ Strachan, John (1949), Osborn Bergin, editor, Old-Irish Paradigms and Selections from the Old-Irish Glosses, fourth edition, Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, →ISBN, page 159
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