conicc
Old Irish
Etymology
Pronunciation
Verb
con·icc (prototonic ·cumaic or ·cumaing, verbal noun cumang or cumacc)
- to be able to, can
- Synonym: ro-
- to have power over
For quotations using this term, see Citations:conicc.
Usage notes
Con·icc can be used to indicate ability or potential to perform another action in two principal ways.
- The most common method is to represent the other action as an accusative verbal noun.
- Con·icid mo chobair. ― You pl can help me.
- Another less common method is to represent the other action as a nasalized subjunctive relative clause. The person and number conjugation of con·icc and the other verb must agree. Passive conjugations count as third-person under this rule.
- Iss ed inso nád chumaing ara·n-ísar and. ― It is this which can’t be found here.
Conjugation
Complex, class B I present, reduplicated preterite, f future, s subjunctive
Related terms
Further reading
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “con-icc”, 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 *h₂neḱ-
- Old Irish terms prefixed with com-
- Old Irish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Old Irish lemmas
- Old Irish verbs
- Old Irish terms with usage examples
- Old Irish complex verbs
- Old Irish class B I present verbs
- Old Irish reduplicated preterite verbs
- Old Irish f future verbs
- Old Irish s subjunctive verbs