adcobra

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Old Irish

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Etymology

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Deadjectival from ad- +‎ cobar (desiring).

From Proto-Indo-European *kwep- (wish). Cognate with Latin cupiō (wish), Sanskrit कुप्यति (kupyati, be moved, excited, agitated), Old Church Slavonic кꙑпѣти (kypěti, to boil), Lithuanian kūpė́ti (to boil).[1]

Pronunciation

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Verb

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ad·cobra (prototonic ·accobra, verbal noun accobar)

  1. to wish, want, desire

For quotations using this term, see Citations:adcobra.

Conjugation

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Descendants

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  • Middle Irish: accobraid

Mutation

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Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
ad·cobra ad·chobra ad·cobra
pronounced with /-ɡ(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 25

Further reading

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