Old Irish

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Etymology

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com- +‎ uss- +‎ scuichid

Pronunciation

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Verb

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con·oscaigi (verbal noun cumscugud)

  1. to move
  2. to change, alter
    • 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. 109d5
      Ní taít Día fo tairṅgere conid·chumscaiged.
      God does not come under a promise that he should alter it.

Conjugation

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Complex, class A II present, s preterite, f future, a subjunctive
active passive
singular plural singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
present indicative deut. ɔ·oisciget ɔ·oscaigther, conn·oscaigther
prot. ·cumsciget ·cumscaigther, ·cumscichther, ·cumscigther
imperfect indicative deut.
prot.
preterite deut. ɔ·oscaig con·oscaigter
prot.
perfect deut. con·roscaigis con·roscaig ɔ·roscaiged
prot. ·comarscaiged
future deut. conn·oscaigfe
prot.
conditional deut.
prot.
present subjunctive deut. cotamm·oscaig (with infixed pronoun dom-) con·oscaige con·oscaiget, con·oschiget cot·oscaigther (with infixed pronoun t-)
prot. ·cumsciget
past subjunctive deut.
prot. ·cumscaiged
imperative
verbal noun cumscugud
past participle cumscaigthe, cumscaichte
verbal of necessity cumscaichthi

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Irish: cumhscaigh

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