Old Irish

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Alternative forms

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈkoβ̃al͈n͈að]

Noun

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comalnad m (genitive comalnada)

  1. verbal noun of comalnaithir (to fulfill, complete)
    • 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. 11a4
      Rethit huili, et is oínḟer gaibes búaid diib inna chomalnad.
      All run, and it is one man of them who gets victory for completing it.
    • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 77a12
      Air du·roimnibetar mo popuil-se a rrecht dia n‑uilemarbae-siu a náimtea .i. mani bé nech fris·chomarr doïbsom ⁊ ⟨du⟩da·imchomarr dia chomalnad tri fochaidi ⁊ ingraimmen.
      For my peoples will forget their law if you sg kill all their enemies, i.e. if there is no one who will hurt them and constrain them to fulfill it through tribulations and persecutions.
  2. fulfillment, completion
    • 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. 30b4
      a nno·ngeiss cách imma chomalnad
      when you sg beseech everyone for its fulfillment

Declension

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Masculine u-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative comalnad
Vocative comalnad
Accusative comalnadN
Genitive comalnadoH, comalnadaH
Dative comalnadL
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

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  • Irish: comhalladh

Mutation

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

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