Old Irish edit

Etymology edit

From comarbbae (heir, successor) (from Proto-Celtic *kom- + *orbos (heir, inheritor), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃erbʰ- (to change ownership)) + -us.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

comarbus m (genitive comarpsa, no plural)

  1. heritage, inheritance, patrimony
    • 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. 9a14
      Bed a{d}thramli .i. gaibid comarbus for n-athar et intamlid a béssu.
      Be pl fatherlike, i.e. take your father’s heritage and imitate his manners

Declension edit

Masculine u-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative comarbus
Vocative comarbus
Accusative comarbusN
Genitive comarpsoH, comarpsaH
Dative comarbusL
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Descendants edit

  • Irish: comharbas

Mutation edit

Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
comarbus chomarbus comarbus
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