tochomracht

Old Irish

Etymology

With to- +‎ com-. See timthirecht for the origin of the -racht.

Noun

tochomracht f

1. verbal noun of ton·comrit: weariness, distress
   • 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. 14^b24

     .i. ropo tochomracht linn buid i mbethu, ut mori omni disiderio cuperemus.

     i.e. it seemed to us a weariness to be in life, so we have been longing for death to all by despair.

   • Compert Con Culainn, published in Compert Con Culainn and other stories (1933, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), page 3, edited by Anton Gerard van Hamel

     Ba tochomracht la hUltu a n-aicsiu oc collud a n-írenn.

     It was distressing to the Ulstermen to see the destruction of their land [as a flock of birds had eaten everything on it].

Inflection

Feminine ā-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	tochomrachtL	—	—
Vocative	tochomrachtL	—	—
Accusative	tochomrachtN	—	—
Genitive	tochomrachtaeH	—	—
Dative	tochomrachtL	—	—
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
tochomracht	thochomracht	tochomracht pronounced with /d(ʲ)-/
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), “tochomracht”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language