Old Irish edit

Etymology edit

From ad- +‎ Proto-Celtic *kubreti (wish) (compare Gaulish cobro-), from Proto-Indo-European *kwep- (wish). Cognate with Latin cupiō (wish), Sanskrit कुप्यति (kupyati, be moved, excited, agitated), Old Church Slavonic кꙑпѣти (kypěti, to boil), Lithuanian kūpė́ti (to boil).[1]

Pronunciation edit

Verb edit

ad·cobra (prototonic ·accobra)

  1. to wish, want, desire

For quotations using this term, see Citations:adcobra.

Conjugation edit

Mutation edit

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

References edit

  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 25

Further reading edit