immcomairc
Old Irish
Etymology
imm- + com- + Proto-Celtic *ɸarsketi
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /imˈkoṽərʲkʲ/
Verb
imm·comairc (verbal noun imchomarc)
- to ask (with do often indicating the person who was asked)
- Synonym: íarmi·foich
- 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. 197b10
- [...]frecre do neoch imme·chomarcar duit[...]
- [...]an answer to what you were asked[...]
- c. 700–800 Táin Bó Cúailnge, from the Yellow Book of Lecan, published in The Táin Bó Cúailnge from the Yellow Book of Lecan, with variant readings from the Lebor na hUidre (1912, Dublin: Hodges, Figgis, and Co.), edited by John Strachan and James George O'Keeffe, TBC-I 573
- A lláa n-aili, imchomrac [im·chomairc, LU] araile fer dona druidib cid día maith a lláai-sin.
- That other day, a certain man asked the druids what that day was good for.
- c. 900, Sanas Cormaic, from the Yellow Book of Lecan, Corm. Y 1059
- Ma[i]th i[n] ré immid·comairc. Senchán eges Erend uile ind-so.
- (when a group of poets is asked by a woman to identify themselves) Good are those you asked. [I am] Senchán, Poet of all Ireland.
Inflection
Complex, class B I present, reduplicated preterite, s future, s subjunctive
| 1st sg. | 2nd sg. | 3rd sg. | 1st pl. | 2nd pl. | 3rd pl. | Passive sg. | Passive pl. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Present indicative | Deut. | immid·comairc | imme·chomairc (relative) | imme·chomarcar (relative) | imme·chomarcatar | ||||
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| Imperfect indicative | Deut. | ||||||||
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| Preterite | Deut. | ||||||||
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| Perfect | Deut. | im·roichomairc | |||||||
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| Future | Deut. | ||||||||
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| Conditional | Deut. | ||||||||
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| Present subjunctive | Deut. | ||||||||
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| Past subjunctive | Deut. | imme·chomairsed | |||||||
| Prot. | |||||||||
| Imperative | imchomarcad | imchomarcam | |||||||
| Verbal noun | imchomarc | ||||||||
| Past participle | |||||||||
| Verbal of necessity | |||||||||
Mutation
| Old Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
| imm·comairc | imm·chomairc | imm·comairc 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), “imm-comairc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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