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.β̃ʲeːd]
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
| singular | dual | plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | comét | — | — |
| vocative | comét | — | — |
| accusative | cométN | — | — |
| genitive | cométoH, cométaH | — | — |
| dative | cométL | — | — |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
- H = triggers aspiration
- L = triggers lenition
- N = triggers nasalization
Descendants
Mutation
| radical | lenition | nasalization |
|---|---|---|
| comét | chomét | comét pronounced with /ɡ-/ |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
References
- ^ Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940) [1909] D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, translation of Handbuch des Alt-Irischen (in German), →ISBN, § 729, page 450f.; reprinted 2017
Further reading
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “coimét”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language