cummae

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Old Irish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Proto-Celtic *kombeyom, from *kom- (with) + *beyom.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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cummae n

  1. verbal noun of con·ben: cutting, butchering, maiming
  2. shape, form, appearance

Inflection

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Neuter io-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative cummaeN cummaeL cummaeL
Vocative cummaeN cummaeL cummaeL
Accusative cummaeN cummaeL cummaeL
Genitive cummaiL cummaeL cummaeN
Dative cummuL cummaib cummaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

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  • Middle Irish: cuma

Adjective

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cummae

  1. similar, alike (with fri or ocus)
    • 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. 20c25
      Níta chumme-se friusom.
      I am not like them.

Derived terms

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Descendants

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Adverb

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cummae

  1. equally, in the same way

Mutation

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

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