comsuidigud

Old Irish

Etymology

From com- (“together”) +‎ suidigud (“putting, placing”), a calque of Latin compositiō, itself a calque of Ancient Greek σύνθεσις (súnthesis).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈkoβ̃huðʲiɣuð]

Noun

comṡuidigud m (genitive comṡuidigtheo)

1. verbal noun of con·suidigedar
2. (linguistics) compounding, composition (formation of compound words from separate words)
   • 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

Masculine u-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	comsuidigud	—	—
Vocative	comsuidigud	—	—
Accusative	comsuidigudN	—	—
Genitive	comṡuidigtheoH, comṡuidigtheaH	—	—
Dative	comsuidigudL	—	—
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Related terms

• comṡuidigthe

Descendants

• Irish: comhshuí

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
comṡuidigud	chomṡuidigud	comṡuidigud 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), “comṡuidigud”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language