v ā (focal)
affirms, declares, pronounces (of an emphatic
or authoritative utterance):
foclaim rim chain is rim
chubus ... na ro aerus duine,
IT iii 86 § 89
. nī dernad riam
... foclaim, ... dūn daṅgen mar Babilion I assert
ZCP iii
19.6
(
Rawl. 74b22
). ní ḟocclam-ne ón we would not say so
(= I am not of that opinion)
TBC-LL¹ 862
(= ni fior són St).
se fichit findscél ... foclas cech fili,
LL 145a49
. corgus apstal
... iii láe cech rathe ... foclait fāithi fīrinne `
proclaim
'
Mart. Tall. 118
(
LL 363
marg. inf.). ma foclaid liaig ...
co fetfaidea a leigis if a physician declares
Laws iii 322.5
Comm.
acht munar focaill sai legha comad marb e `has
stated'
BCrólige § 14 Comm.
foclaim bad comhainm an
láoi so ... th'oidhidh (a prediction)
BNnÉ 37 § 66
. cach
plág ro ḟocail `every plague that he threatened'
Metr. Dinds.
iii 452
. In Laws Comm. used of
giving an award or decision:
a focluit comuighthuigh eaturra,
Laws
ii 154.12
.
febh nosfocluid
comhaithig,
314.21
. ollam foccail .i. inti foclaiter conid
ollam `who is reputed to be an ollam'
v 114.21
(who is tested
so that he becomes a master' MacNeill,
PRIA xxxvi C 281
n. 3
). Cf. inodfocladar in t-ollam as a dréchtaib `the Ollamh
reports of him as to his compositions' (of a candidate `fili'),
O'Curry,
MS. Mat. 462
(<
H 2.15A, p. 85
). Cland Ch. nár
ḟocail ḟeall who never uttered (?) (approved ?) falsehood
IGT,
Verbs ex. 450
. Of ordering, enjoining, with FOR (AR):
mas e in liaig rofocail ni dona hurcoilltibh so aran othar
`if it be the leech who has prescribed any of these ... for the
patient'
BCrólige § 25 Comm.
damad e in cintac ro oclad
if it were the defendant who had ordered ib. ni liagh ro focail
air ann sin (of a wounded man)
O'Curry 1818
(<
23 Q 6, 45b
).
ara focladh orro dul ind (sc. a boat)
Laws
iii 212.1
. Cf. fāth a focla
orro [leg. ar a focladh ? or is this vn. ?]
Laws iii 210.26
.
cidbe fath ara focladh orro dul ind,
212.2
. a riar orainn
do fhocail `it has imposed its rule on me'
Dán Dé vii 19
.
Vn. focal, 2 -foclad. See also focalta.