coscar
Old Irish edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Traditionally explained as derived from con·scara (“to destroy, kill”). However, Gordon suspects that it is instead from com- + scor, given the masculine o-stem inflection of both.[1]
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
coscar m (genitive coscair)
- victory
- 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. 95a5
- Is ed as·bertis b⟨a⟩ a nert fadesin imme·ḟolnged choscur doib, níbu Día.
- That is, they used to say that it was their own strength that produced victory for them, not God
- 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. 95a5
Declension edit
| Masculine o-stem | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Dual | Plural | |
| Nominative | coscar, coscur | — | — |
| Vocative | coscair | — | — |
| Accusative | coscarN, coscur | — | — |
| Genitive | coscairL | — | — |
| Dative | coscurL | — | — |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Descendants edit
Mutation edit
| Old Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
| coscar | choscar | coscar pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/ |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
References edit
- ^ Gordon, Randall Clark (2012) Derivational Morphology of the Early Irish Verbal Noun, Los Angeles: University of California, page 288
Further reading edit
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “coscar”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Spanish edit
Verb edit
coscar