toncomrit

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• ton·comra (Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus reading)

Etymology

From to- +‎ n- (“Class A 1st-person plural infixed object pronoun”) +‎ com- +‎ reithid.

Verb

ton·comrit (verbal noun tochomracht)

1. (hapax) it makes us weary
   • 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^b23

     toncomr- [followed by a few more poorly legible letters]

     it makes us weary (glosses Latin tederet nos)

Usage notes

This verb is a hapax legomenon that is attested only once in the Würzburg Glosses as a single-word gloss from its prima manus whose final letter(s) are very poorly legible. Plummer reads ton·comrit, while Stokes in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus reads ton·comra, the latter interpretation generally taken to be the subjunctive of this verb.

Inflection

Complex, class B I present

		1st sg.	2nd sg.	3rd sg.	1st pl.	2nd pl.	3rd pl.	Passive sg.	Passive pl.
Present indicative	Deut.			ton·comrit (probably)
	Prot.
Imperfect indicative	Deut.
	Prot.
Preterite	Deut.
	Prot.
Perfect	Deut.
	Prot.
Future	Deut.
	Prot.
Conditional	Deut.
	Prot.
Present subjunctive	Deut.
	Prot.
Past subjunctive	Deut.
	Prot.
Imperative
Verbal noun		tochomracht
Past participle
Verbal of necessity

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