connessa

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /konˈnes.sa/, (traditional) /konˈnɛs.sa/
• Rhymes: -essa, (traditional) -ɛssa
• Hyphenation: con‧nés‧sa, (traditional) con‧nès‧sa

Adjective

connessa

1. feminine singular of connesso

Old Irish

Etymology

From com- +‎ *nistāyeti.

Verb

con·nessa (prototonic ·comainsea, verbal noun comainsem)

1. to spurn
   • 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. 1^d7

     Con·nessat immurgu in gníim n-olcc et ara·ngairet.

     They contemn, however, the evil deed and forbid it.

Inflection

Complex, class A I present, s preterite, f future

		1st sg.	2nd sg.	3rd sg.	1st pl.	2nd pl.	3rd pl.	Passive sg.	Passive pl.
Present indicative	Deut.						con·nessat
	Prot.			·comainsea
Imperfect indicative	Deut.
	Prot.
Preterite	Deut.
	Prot.
Perfect	Deut.			con·runes
	Prot.
Future	Deut.	con·nessiub		con·nesfea
	Prot.
Conditional	Deut.
	Prot.
Present subjunctive	Deut.
	Prot.
Past subjunctive	Deut.
	Prot.
Imperative
Verbal noun		comainsem
Past participle
Verbal of necessity

Related terms

• ad·nessa

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
con·nessa also con·nnessa	con·nessa pronounced with /-n(ʲ)-/	unchanged
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), “con-nessa”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language