# forcongair
## Old Irish
### Etymology

From for- +‎ com- +‎ gairid.

### Verb

for·congair (prototonic ·forgair, verbal noun forngaire)
* to order someone else to do something
** c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 13$^a$27
    Far·congair-som tra sunt indsamuil precepte et labrad il-bélre ac[h]t ropo cho torbu æcolsa.Here, then, he orders [them] to imitate [his] preaching and to speak many languages, provided it benefits the Church.
** c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 15$^a$26
    .i. denom neich for·chongair rechtto do [anything] the law orders
** c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 94$^b$3
    .i. ind aisndís .i. intan as·n-indet Dia ⁊ for·congair du doínib comallad a fírinne, is lour doib insin dia falgud, arní·cumgat comallad inna firinne-sin in ógai amal fornda·congair Dia doib ⁊ im·folṅgai son legad doib-som ⁊ techt hi piana huare nand·chumgat.i.e. the declaration, i.e. when God declares and orders men to fulfill His righteousness, that is enough to dismay them, for they cannot fulfill that righteousness completely, as God orders them to do, and that causes them to melt and to go into torments because they cannot do it.
** c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 161$^b$5
    airindí fonda·suidigedar hi cummato lasinni forsa·forgair, sech ba huaisliu intí for·chongair iar n-aicniud.because [supponit] puts itself on an equality with the one who orders it, though he that orders were naturally the superior.

#### Inflection

| | | 1st sg. | 3rd sg. | 1st pl. | Passive sg. | Passive pl. |
| Present indicative | Deut. | for·congur; for·chongrimm (relative) | for·congair | | | |
| Present indicative | Prot. | | ·forgair | | ·forcongarar | ·forngartar |
| Imperfect indicative | Deut. | | far·chongrad (relative) | | | |
| Imperfect indicative | Prot. | | | | | |
| Preterite | Deut. | | | | | |
| Preterite | Prot. | | | | | |
| Perfect | Deut. | | forro·chongart; forru·chongart (relative) | | forror·congrad | |
| Perfect | Prot. | | | | | |
| Future | Deut. | for·congér | | | | |
| Future | Prot. | | | | | |
| Conditional | Deut. | | | | | |
| Conditional | Prot. | | | | | |
| Present subjunctive | Deut. | | | for·chongram (relative) | | |
| Present subjunctive | Prot. | | | | | |
| Past subjunctive | Deut. | | | | | |
| Past subjunctive | Prot. | | | | | |
| Imperative | Imperative | | | | | |
| Verbal noun | Verbal noun | forngaire; forgaire | | | | |
| Past participle | Past participle | | | | | |
| Verbal of necessity | Verbal of necessity | | | | | |

### Further reading

* Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “for-congair”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language