comthururas

Old Irish

Etymology

From com- +‎ to- +‎ ar- +‎ uss- + the root of reithid, from Proto-Celtic *reteti, from Proto-Indo-European *Hreth₂-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈkoβ̃θururas]

Noun

comthururas n

1. incursion, attack
   • 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. 56^a22

     Nacham·indarbanar-sa fo chomt⟨h⟩ururasib inna ndíummassach.

     Let me not be expelled under the incursions of the proud.

Declension

There is no direct evidence of the gender; the assignment as neuter is due to Thurneysen’s suggestion that it belongs to the same class of verbal nouns as mrath and dermat.

Neuter o-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	comthururasN	comthururasN	comthururasL, comthururasa
Vocative	comthururasN	comthururasN	comthururasL, comthururasa
Accusative	comthururasN	comthururasN	comthururasL, comthururasa
Genitive	comthururaisL	comthururas	comthururasN
Dative	comthururusL	comthururasaib, comthururasib	comthururasaib, comthururasib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Mutation

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