Old Irish edit

Etymology edit

From com- +‎ uss- +‎ gaibid (to take).

Pronunciation edit

Verb edit

con·ocaib (verbal noun cumgabál)

  1. to raise, rise
    • 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. 83a4
      .i. intan con·ucbad in nél no·bith immun n-aírc, migrabunt filii Israhel hi suidiu; intan dano nu·n-anad in nél hisin, no·gaibtissom dunad hi suidiu.
      When the cloud that was around the Ark were lifted, then the Children of Israel would migrate; when, moreover, the cloud rested, they would camp out.
    • c. 850 Glosses on the Carlsruhe Beda, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 10–30, Bcr. 33d12
      .i. du hi·cumgabæ
      i.e. the place in which you sg may uplift. (glossing Latin loca sustuleris)
    • c. 850-875, Turin Glosses and Scholia on St Mark, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 484–94, Tur. 104
      .i. ind naithr humaithe thal con·ocabsa[t] maic Israel in diserto.
      that is, that bronze serpent which the Children of Israel upraised in the desert.
  2. to uplift, exalt, extol
    • 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. 57d8
      .i. med brithemnachtae Dæ hua·ndamnither int ingor, is huant firinni in[na] brithemnachtae-si[n] con·ocaba[r] in firián.
      i.e. the balance of the judgment of God whereby the impious is condemned, it is by the truth of that judgment that the righteous man is exalted.

Inflection edit

Mutation edit

Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
con·ocaib unchanged con·n-ocaib
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading edit