comét
Old Irish
Alternative forms
- coméit (Würzburg Glosses)
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *komentus, essentially *kom- (“with”) + *em- (“to take”) + *-tus (noun forming suffix).[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈko.ṽʲeːd/
Noun
comét m (genitive cométa)
- verbal noun of con·ói: keeping, guarding, preservation
- 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. 112b20
- aingil dæ bete oc comet ind fír fírioín
- [it is] the angels of God who will be guarding the righteous man
- 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. 112b20
Inflection
| Masculine u-stem | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Dual | Plural | |
| Nominative | comét | — | — |
| Vocative | comét | — | — |
| Accusative | cométN | — | — |
| Genitive | cométoH, cométaH | — | — |
| Dative | cométL | — | — |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Mutation
| Old Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
| comét | chomét | comét pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/ |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
References
- Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940, reprinted 2017) D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, § 729, page 450f.
Further reading
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “coimét”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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