cumung
Old Irish edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Proto-Celtic *komangus (compare Welsh cyfyng), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm (“beside, near, by, with”) + *h₂enǵʰ- (“tight, painfully constricted”).[1]
Adjective edit
cumung
- narrow, constricted, close, compressed, restricted, constrained
- 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. 16a12
- .i. is cumung fuirib-si immurgu occa nairitin na forcetal-sin.
- You are constrained, however, in receiving those teachings.
- c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 6a17
- 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. 16a12
Declension edit
u-stem | |||
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Singular | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter |
Nominative | cumung | cumung | cumung |
Vocative | cumung | ||
Accusative | cumung | cumuing | |
Genitive | cumuing | cumgae | cumuing |
Dative | cumung | cumuing | cumung |
Plural | Masculine | Feminine/neuter | |
Nominative | cumgai | cumgai | |
Vocative | cumgai | ||
Accusative | cumgai | ||
Genitive | * | ||
Dative | cumgaib | ||
Notes | *not attested in Old Irish; same as nominative singular masculine in Middle Irish |
Descendants edit
References edit
- ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*kom-angu-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 214
Further reading edit
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “cumung”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Etymology 2 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Noun edit
cumung
Mutation edit
Old Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
cumung | chumung | cumung pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/ |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |