commant

French

Participle

commant

1. present participle of commer

Old Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin commentum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkomən͈(d)/

Noun

commant n

1. alliance, pact, union, friendship
   • 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. 78^b11

     Ro·bói commant n-etarru du denum uilc fri mmaccu Israhel.

     There was a covenant between them to do evil to the sons of Israel.

2. company, band
3. (later) love, affection

Inflection

Neuter o-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	commantN	commantN	commantL, commanda
Vocative	commantN	commantN	commantL, commanda
Accusative	commantN	commantN	commantL, commanda
Genitive	commaindL	commant	commantN
Dative	commundL	commandaib	commandaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Synonyms

• cairdes

Descendants

• Middle Irish: commond
  • Irish: cumann
  • Manx: commyn
  • Scottish Gaelic: comann

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
commant	chommant	commant 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), “commann”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language