conoí

Old Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From com- +‎ Proto-Celtic *oweti, the latter being inherited from Proto-Indo-European *h₁éwH-e-ti (“to help”). It is a close cognate of Sanskrit अवति (ávati, “to help”).[1]

The verbal noun comét and the deponent preterite forms are suppleted from a form of Proto-Celtic *emeti also prefixed with com-. Compare do·eim of similar meaning.[2]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [konˈoːi̯]

Verb

con·ói (prototonic ·comai, verbal noun comét)

  1. to protect, guard
  2. to preserve, keep
    • c. 815-840, “The Monastery of Tallaght”, in Edward J. Gwynn, Walter J. Purton, transl., Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, volume 29, Royal Irish Academy, published 1911-1912, paragraph 6, pages 115-179:
      ...céne con·n-oither mo thimnasa insin purt-sa. Nícon·ibthar lind dermait dé and.
      ...as long as my rules are upheld in this place, alcoholic beverages that lead to us forgetting about God are not to be drunk.
    • 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. 29d29
      is Día cota·óei-ade tre a gnímo-som
      It is God who preserves [the heavenly reward] through his deeds.

Conjugation

Complex, class A III present, t preterite, f future, a subjunctive
active passive
singular plural singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
present indicative deut. con·ói, con·oadar; cota·roí (ro-form with infixed pronoun da-) cot·dóith (with infixed pronoun d-) cot·oat (with infixed pronoun d-) con·n-oither
prot. ·comai, ·comathar
imperfect indicative deut.
prot.
preterite deut.
prot.
perfect deut. con·róiter con·roitatar
prot.
future deut. cot·nófathar (with infixed pronoun d-)
prot.
conditional deut.
prot.
present subjunctive deut. con·óither cotam·róither (ro-form with infixed pronoun tam-)
prot. ·coma, ·comathar
past subjunctive deut.
prot. ·comud
imperative comae comid
verbal noun comét
past participle
verbal of necessity

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Rix, Helmut, editor (2001), “*h₁eu̯H-”, in Lexikon der indogermanischen Verben [Lexicon of Indo-European Verbs] (in German), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, →ISBN, page 243f.
  2. ^ 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 451; reprinted 2017

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