conosna

Old Irish

Etymology

From com- +‎ uss- +‎ anaid (“to stay”).

Verb

con·osna (prototonic ·cumsana, verbal noun cumsanad)

to cease, stop, end
- 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. 80^d5
  ní cumsanfa ― glossing Latin non desistet (“will not stop”)
- 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. 206^a3
  Air cheso i n-.us. con·osna són, ní i n-.um. do·gní a neutur.
  Although [Latin alius] ends in -us, it does not make its neuter [i.e. aliud] with -um.

Inflection

Complex, class A I present, s preterite, f future, a subjunctive
		active						passive
		singular			plural			singular	plural
		1^st	2^nd	3^rd	1^st	2^nd	3^rd	singular	plural
present indicative	deut.			con·osna			con·osnat
present indicative	prot.			·cumsana

imperfect indicative	deut.
imperfect indicative	prot.

preterite	deut.
preterite	prot.	·cumsanus		·cumsan

perfect	deut.			con·rosan
perfect	prot.

future	deut.
future	prot.			·cumsanfa

conditional	deut.
conditional	prot.

present subjunctive	deut.		con·osnai
present subjunctive	prot.

past subjunctive	deut.			con·osnaitis
past subjunctive	prot.

imperative

verbal noun		cumsanad
past participle
verbal of necessity

Mutation

Mutation of *con·osna*
radical	lenition	nasalization
con·osna (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)	con·osna	con·n-osna

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “con-osna”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language