Old Irish edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

Univerbation of co (so that) + ro- (perfective prefix) +‎ ba (third-person singular present subjunctive of the copula)

Pronunciation edit

Verb edit

corop (abbreviated ɔrop)

  1. so that (he/she/it) may be
    • 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. 7d10
      ɔrop inonn cretem bes hi far cridiu et a n-as·beraid hó bélib
      so that the belief which is in your pl heart and what you utter with [your] lips may be the same

Mutation edit

Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
corop chorop corop
pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.