conosna

Old Irish

Etymology

From com- +‎ uss- +‎ anaid (“to stay”).

Verb

con·osna (prototonic ·cumsana, verbal noun cumsanad)

1. to cease, stop, end
   • 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. 80^d5

     ní cumsanfa ― glossing Latin non desistet (“will not stop”)

   • c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 206^a3

     Air cheso i n-.us. con·osna són, ní i n-.um. do·gní a neutur.

     Although [Latin alius] ends in -us, it does not make its neuter [i.e. aliud] with -um.

Inflection

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

		1st sg.	2nd sg.	3rd sg.	1st pl.	2nd pl.	3rd pl.	Passive sg.	Passive pl.
Present indicative	Deut.			con·osna			con·osnat
	Prot.			·cumsana
Imperfect indicative	Deut.
	Prot.
Preterite	Deut.
	Prot.	·cumsanus		·cumsan
Perfect	Deut.			con·rosan
	Prot.
Future	Deut.
	Prot.			·cumsanfa
Conditional	Deut.
	Prot.
Present subjunctive	Deut.		con·osnai
	Prot.
Past subjunctive	Deut.			con·osnaitis
	Prot.
Imperative
Verbal noun		cumsanad
Past participle
Verbal of necessity

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
con·osna (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)	unchanged	con·n-osna
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-osna”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language