ocubí

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Old Irish edit

Etymology edit

From oc +‎ ·bí (habitual present of at·tá (to be)).[1][2] Compounds of that verb were often confused with those from benaid (to strike) in early Irish, leading to stem-final -n- in some present forms.

The m in prototonic forms appears to be due to interference from the prefix com-.[3]

Pronunciation edit

Verb edit

ocu·bí (prototonic ·ocmi, verbal noun ocmad)

  1. to touch
    • 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. 53b17
      ocu·bether .i. comaicsigfid Día dún tri sodin
      shall be touched, i.e. God will bring [it] near to us through that

Conjugation edit

Mutation edit

Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
ocu·bí ocu·bí
pronounced with /-v(ʲ)-/
ocu·mbí
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References edit

  1. ^ Pedersen, Holger (1913) Vergleichende Grammatik der keltischen Sprachen (in German), volume II, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, →ISBN, page 444
  2. ^ G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “ocuben”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940, reprinted 2003) D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, § 848, page 525