comarbus
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)
- 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
- 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
Declension edit
Masculine u-stem | |||
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Singular | Dual | Plural | |
Nominative | comarbus | — | — |
Vocative | comarbus | — | — |
Accusative | comarbusN | — | — |
Genitive | comarpsoH, comarpsaH | — | — |
Dative | comarbusL | — | — |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Descendants edit
- Irish: comharbas
Mutation edit
Old Irish mutation | ||
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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
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “comarbus”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language