cumang
Old Irish
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editPronunciation
editNoun
editcumang (gender unknown)
- verbal noun of con·icc
- power, ability
- 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. 18a14
- As·ririu-sa mo chumang dar far cenn.
- I will expend my power on your pl behalf.
- 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. 18a14
Declension
editIt is not known whether this noun is masculine or neuter.[1] If it is masculine:
Masculine o-stem | |||
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Singular | Dual | Plural | |
Nominative | cumang | cumangL | cumaingL |
Vocative | cumaing | cumangL | *cumguH |
Accusative | cumangN | cumangL | *cumguH |
Genitive | cumaingL | cumang | cumangN |
Dative | cumungL | cumgaib | cumgaib |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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If neuter:
Neuter o-stem | |||
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Singular | Dual | Plural | |
Nominative | cumangN | cumangN | cumangL, *cumga |
Vocative | cumangN | cumangN | cumangL, *cumga |
Accusative | cumangN | cumangN | cumangL, *cumga |
Genitive | cumaingL | cumang | cumangN |
Dative | cumungL | cumgaib | cumgaib |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Mutation
editOld Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
cumang | chumang | cumang pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/ |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References
edit- ^ Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940, reprinted 2017) D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, § 724, page 448
Further reading
edit- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 cumang”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language