adcumaing

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Old Irish

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Etymology

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From in- +‎ com- +‎ ·icc.

Verb

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ad·cumaing (prototonic ·ecmaing)

  1. to strike
  2. to happen
  3. to happen to be

For quotations using this term, see Citations:adcumaing.

Usage notes

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  • The prototonic third-person singular present is commonly used in absolute position to introduce an event that happened, regardless of whether the event happened in the present or past, even when normally the deuterotonic would be used there.
  • In the sense "happen to be", the subject is encoded as an infixed object pronoun.

Inflection

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For the preterite, an s-preterite is used in the sense to strike, while in the sense to happen, reduplicated preterites tend to be used.

Derived terms

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Mutation

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

Further reading

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