adcobra

Old Irish

Etymology

From ad- +‎ Proto-Celtic *kubreti (“wish”) (compare Gaulish cobro-), from Proto-Indo-European *kup- (“wish”).

Cognate with Latin cupiō (“wish”), Sanskrit कुप्यति (kupyati, “be moved, excited, agitated”), Old Church Slavonic кꙑпѣти (kypěti, “to boil”), Limburgish kūpė́ti (“to boil”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aðˈkovra/

Verb

ad·cobra (prototonic ·accobra)

1. to wish, want, desire

Conjugation

Complex, class A I present, s preterite, a subjunctive

		1st sg.	2nd sg.	3rd sg.	1st pl.	2nd pl.	3rd pl.	Passive sg.	Passive pl.
Present indicative	Deut.	ad·cobraim	ad·cobrai	ad·cobra asin·chobra (with infixed pronoun in-)			ad·cobrat
	Prot.		·accobri	·accobra
Imperfect indicative	Deut.	ad·cobrinn		ad·cobrad, ath·cobrad
	Prot.
Preterite	Deut.			ad·cobair
	Prot.
Perfect	Deut.			ad·rochabair	ad·rochobursam
	Prot.
Future	Deut.
	Prot.
Conditional	Deut.
	Prot.
Present subjunctive	Deut.			ad·cobra			ad·cobrat
	Prot.			·accobra
Past subjunctive	Deut.	ad·cobrinn		ad·cobrad
	Prot.
Imperative
Verbal noun		accobar
Past participle
Verbal of necessity

Mutation

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.

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “ad·cobra”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language