feòraich

inquire, fiafraigh (Kintyre Dial.), Irish fiafruighim, Old Irish iarfaigim: *iar-fach, prep. iar and fach, Early Irish faig, dixit, *vakô, say; Latin vocô, call, vox, voice; Sanskrit vac, say. The r of Gaelic and modern Irish has shifted to behind the f, while a prothetic f is added.