cumung
Old Irish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈkuβ̃uŋɡ]
Etymology 1
From Proto-Celtic *komangus (compare Welsh cyfyng), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm (“beside, near, by, with”) + *h₂enǵʰ- (“tight, painfully constricted”).[1]
Adjective
cumung
- narrow, constricted, close, compressed, restricted, constrained
- 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. 16a12
- .i. is cumung fuirib-si immurgu occa nairitin na forcetal-sin.
- You are constrained, however, in receiving those teachings.
- 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. 6a17
- 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. 16a12
Declension
| singular | masculine | feminine | neuter |
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | cumung | cumung | cumung |
| vocative | cumung | ||
| accusative | cumung | cumuing | |
| genitive | cumuing | cumgae | cumuing |
| dative | cumung | cumuing | cumung |
| plural | masculine | feminine/neuter | |
| nominative | cumgai | cumgai | |
| vocative | cumgai | ||
| accusative | cumgai | ||
| genitive | * | ||
| dative | cumgaib | ||
*not attested in Old Irish; same as nominative singular masculine in Middle Irish
Descendants
References
- ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*kom-angu-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 214
Further reading
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cumung”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Noun
cumung
- dative singular of cumang
Mutation
| radical | lenition | nasalization |
|---|---|---|
| cumung | chumung | cumung pronounced with /ɡ-/ |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.