coibnesta

Old Irish

Etymology

From coibnius +‎ -de.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈkoβʲnʲesta]

Adjective

coibnesta

1. akin (+ do (“to”))
   • 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. 159^a3

     Is airi ní táet comṡuidigud fri rangabáil, húare as coibnesta do bréthir: ar is lour comṡuidigud fri suidi, air bid comṡuidigud etarscartha comṡuidigud rangabálae.

     This is why composition does not occur with a participle, because it is akin to a verb: for composition with the latter is sufficient, for composition of a participle will be separated composition.

Declension

io/iā-stem
Singular	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	coibnesta	coibnesta	coibnesta
Vocative	coibnestai
Accusative	coibnesta	coibnestai
Genitive	coibnestai	coibnesta	coibnestai
Dative	coibnestu	coibnestai	coibnestu
Plural	Masculine	Feminine/neuter
Nominative	coibnestai	coibnestai
Vocative	coibnestai coibnestu*
Accusative	coibnestai coibnestu*
Genitive	coibnesta
Dative	coibnestaib
Notes	* when substantivized

Descendants

• Irish: coibhneasta

Mutation

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

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “coibnestae”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language