Old Irish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Proto-Celtic *komentus, essentially *kom- (with) +‎ *em- (to take) +‎ *-tus (noun forming suffix).[1]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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comét m (genitive cométa)

  1. verbal noun of con·ói: keeping, guarding, preservation
    • 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. 112b20
      aingil dæ bete oc comet ind fír fírioín
      [it is] the angels of God who will be guarding the righteous man

Inflection

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Masculine u-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative comét
Vocative comét
Accusative cométN
Genitive cométoH, cométaH
Dative cométL
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

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  • Middle Irish: comét

Mutation

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Mutation of comét
radical lenition nasalization
comét chomét comét
pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

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  1. ^ Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940) D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, § 729, page 450f.; reprinted 2017

Further reading

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