corop

Old Irish

Alternative forms

  • corrop

Etymology

Univerbation of co (so that) + ro- (perfective prefix) +‎ ba (third-person singular present subjunctive of the copula)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkorob/

Verb

corop (abbreviated ɔrop)

  1. so that (he/she/it) may be
    • 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. 7d10
      ɔrop inonn cretem bes hi far cridiu et a n-as·beraid hó bélib
      so that the belief which is in your pl heart and what you utter with [your] lips may be the same

Mutation

Mutation of corop
radical lenition nasalization
corop chorop corop
pronounced with /ɡ-/

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