Old Irish edit

Etymology edit

com- +‎ bongaid

Pronunciation edit

Verb edit

con·boing (verbal noun combach) (abbreviated ɔ·boing)

  1. to break
    • 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. 4d15
      In Belzefuth: is béss didu ind lïacc benir il-béim friss, et intí do·thuit foir ɔ·boing a chnámi, intí fora tuit-som immurgu at·bail-side.
      The Beelzebub: it is the custom, then, of the stone that many blows are hit against it, and he who falls upon it breaks his bones; however, he whom it falls on perishes

Conjugation edit

Mutation edit

Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
con·boing con·boing
pronounced with /-v(ʲ)-/
con·mboing
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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