concná
Old Irish
editEtymology
editA hapax legomenon only found once in the folk-etymological glossary Sanas Cormaic, made c. 900. From Proto-Celtic *komknāyeti (“to chew”), a compound of *kom- + *knāyeti (“to gnaw”). Cognate with Welsh cynghnoi (“to chew”).[1]
Verb
editcon·cná (verbal noun cocnam)
- (hapax) to chew
- c. 900, Sanas Cormaic, from Bodleian MS Laud 610, Corm. La 2
- Con·cná in fili mír do charnu dirg muice ł chon no chaitt ⁊ da·bir iarum for licc iar cul na comlad ⁊ di·chain dichetal fair...
- The poet chews on a piece of flesh from a red pig, a dog, or a cat, and puts it afterwards on the flag[stone] behind the door, and recites an incantation on it...
- c. 900, Sanas Cormaic, from Bodleian MS Laud 610, Corm. La 2
Inflection
editComplex, class A III present
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Present indicative | Deut. | con·cná | |||||||
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Imperfect indicative | Deut. | ||||||||
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Preterite | Deut. | ||||||||
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Perfect | Deut. | ||||||||
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Future | Deut. | ||||||||
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Conditional | Deut. | ||||||||
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Present subjunctive | Deut. | ||||||||
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Past subjunctive | Deut. | ||||||||
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Verbal noun | cocnam | ||||||||
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Verbal of necessity |
Descendants
editMutation
editOld Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
con·cná | con·chná | con·cná pronounced with /-ɡ(ʲ)-/ |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References
edit- ^ Schumacher, Stefan, Schulze-Thulin, Britta (2004) “*knā-i̯e/o-”, in Die keltischen Primärverben: ein vergleichendes, etymologisches und morphologisches Lexikon [The Celtic Primary Verbs: A comparative, etymological and morphological lexicon] (Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft; 110) (in German), Innsbruck: Institut für Sprachen und Literaturen der Universität Innsbruck, →ISBN, page 418
Further reading
edit- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “con-cnaí”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language