comthururas
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Old Irish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From com- + to- + ar- + uss- + the root of reithid,[1] from Proto-Celtic *reteti, from Proto-Indo-European *Hreth₂-.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
comthururas n
- incursion, attack
- 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. 56a22
- Nacham·indarbanar-sa fo chomt⟨h⟩ururasib inna ndíummassach.
- Let me not be expelled under the incursions of the proud.
- 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. 56a22
Declension[edit]
There is no direct evidence of the gender; the assignment as neuter is due to Thurneysen’s suggestion[2] that it belongs to the same class of verbal nouns as mrath and dermat.
Neuter o-stem | |||
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Singular | Dual | Plural | |
Nominative | comthururasN | comthururasN | comthururasL, comthururasa |
Vocative | comthururasN | comthururasN | comthururasL, comthururasa |
Accusative | comthururasN | comthururasN | comthururasL, comthururasa |
Genitive | comthururaisL | comthururas | comthururasN |
Dative | comthururusL | comthururasaib, comthururasib | comthururasaib, comthururasib |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Mutation[edit]
Old Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
comthururas | chomthururas | comthururas pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/ |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References[edit]
- ^ Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940, reprinted 2017) D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, § 823, page 497
- ^ Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940, reprinted 2017) D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, § 737, page 455
Further reading[edit]
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “comthururas”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Categories:
- Old Irish terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Old Irish terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *Hreth₂-
- Old Irish terms prefixed with com-
- Old Irish terms prefixed with to-
- Old Irish terms prefixed with ar-
- Old Irish terms prefixed with uss-
- Old Irish terms derived from Proto-Celtic
- Old Irish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Old Irish lemmas
- Old Irish nouns
- Old Irish neuter nouns
- Old Irish terms with quotations
- Old Irish neuter o-stem nouns