fomus

Old Irish

Etymology

From fo- +‎ mess.

Noun

fomus m

calculation, estimate

Declension

Masculine u-stem
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	fomus	fomus^L	foimse
vocative	fomus	fomus^L	foimsiu
accusative	fomus^N	fomus^L	foimsiu
genitive	foimseo^H, foimsea^H	foimseo, foimsea	foimse^N
dative	fomus^L	foimsib	foimsib

Initial mutations of a following adjective:

^H = triggers aspiration
^L = triggers lenition
^N = triggers nasalization

Mutation

Mutation of *fomus*
radical	lenition	nasalization
fomus	ḟomus	fomus pronounced with /β̃-/

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), “fomus”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language