foceird

• fo·ceirt

The deuterotonic and future stems are from fo- +‎ Proto-Celtic *kerdeti (“to put, lay, move”) (compare Middle Welsh kerðet, Welsh cerdded (“walk”), Breton kerzhet (“walk”), Cornish kerdhes (“walk”)), from Proto-Indo-European *kerd- (“to swing”) (compare Ancient Greek κραδαίνω (kradaínō, “to swing”), Latin cardō (“hinge”), Old High German scerdo (“hinge”)).^[1]

The prototonic forms of the present stem (·cuirethar etc.) are thought to be denominative from cor (“putting, casting, throwing”), from which Matasović reconstructs Proto-Celtic *koros (“act of putting, casting, a throw”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to turn”).^[2] Le Mair however finds such an immediately denominative origin to be dubious, and reconstructs a Proto-Celtic *korītor instead. She relates this verb to a root *kerH- (“to throw”) rather than *(s)ker-.^[3]

See ro·lá for the etymology of the perfective forms.

• IPA^(key): [ɸoˈkʲer͈ʲdʲ]

fo·ceird (prototonic ·cuirethar, verbal noun cor)

1. to put, place, set
   • 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. 68^b9

     cia beith ar n‑acathar nech inna rétu inducbaidi in betha so, arnach·corathar i mmoth ⁊ machthad dia seirc ⁊ dia n‑accubur

     though it be that someone sees the glorious things of this world, that he may not be put in stupor and admiration by love for them and by desire for them

2. to throw, cast

This verb suppletes three verb roots belonging to three separate conjugation classes.

• The deuterotonic forms, dominated by direct conjugations of fo·ceird itself, are class B I, and form an á-preterite, s-future (the s obscured by fusion with the root cluster -rd-), and s-subjunctive.
• The prototonic forms in ·cuirethar and the like are class A II (specifically of the W2b subtype), and like almost all weak verbs form an s-preterite and a-subjunctive. The prototonic future surprisingly is derived from the deuterotonic stem instead.
• The perfective forms in ·lá and the like are class A III and form an s-perfect and an a-subjunctive.

• Middle Irish: cuirid
  • Irish: cuir
  • Manx: cur, cuirr
  • Scottish Gaelic: cuir

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “fo·ceird”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 cor”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language