comroircnech
Old Irish
Etymology
From comrorcun (“error, mistake”) (from con·rerortatar (“they have made a mistake”), from the root of orcaid (“to kill”)), + -ach (adjective).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈkoṽrorʲɡʲnʲex]
Adjective
comroircnech
- erroneous
- c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 26b7
- De dliguth trá inna n-il-toimdden sin, is de gaibthi “igitur”; quasi dixisset “Ní fail ní nád taí mo dligeth-sa fair i ndegaid na comroircnech.”
- Of the law then, of those many opinions, it is thereof that he recites “igitur”; as if he had said, “There is nothing which my law does not touch upon after the erroneous ones.
- c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 26b7
Declension
| o/ā-stem | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter |
| Nominative | comroircnech | comroircnech | comroircnech |
| Vocative | comroircnig* comroircnech** | ||
| Accusative | comroircnech | comroircnig | |
| Genitive | comroircnig | comroircnige | comroircnig |
| Dative | comroircnech | comroircnig | comroircnech |
| Plural | Masculine | Feminine/neuter | |
| Nominative | comroircnig | comroircnecha | |
| Vocative | comroircnechu comroircnecha† | ||
| Accusative | comroircnechu comroircnecha† | ||
| Genitive | comroircnech | ||
| Dative | comroircnechaib | ||
| Notes | *modifying a noun whose vocative is different from its nominative **modifying a noun whose vocative is identical to its nominative | ||
Mutation
| Old Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
| comroircnech | chomroircnech | comroircnech pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/ |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
Further reading
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “comroircnech”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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