Old Irish edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

From cobodail (from con·fodlai, from com- + fo- + dál) + -us.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

cobodlus m

  1. fellowship, communion
    • 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. 22b26
      Ná bíth i cobadlus doïb, ar atá torad la gnímu soilse .i. praemia aeterna ní ḟil immurgu acht infructuosa.
      Do not be in fellowship with them, for there is fruit with works of light, i.e. praemia aeterna. There is nothing [with works of darkness], however, save infructuousa.

Declension edit

Masculine u-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative cobodlus
Vocative cobodlus
Accusative cobodlusN
Genitive cobodlusoH, cobodlusaH
Dative cobodlusL
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Mutation edit

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

Further reading edit