coimdiu

Old Irish

Etymology

From *kommedūs, an agent noun to the verb con·midethar (“to rule”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkoṽʲðʲu/

Noun

coimdiu m (genitive coimded)

1. lord, master

   Synonym: tigerna

   • 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. 27^c9

     Níbo in tain no·mbeid ar súil tantum do·gneith toil far coimded.

     It must not be when you pl are seen (by him) only that you do your master’s will.

   • 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. 65^d13

     .i. co n-eperthae as comdiu dia rígain in rí.

     And it should be said that the king is a master to his queen.

2. (Christianity) the Lord

Declension

Masculine t-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	coimdiu	coimdidL, coimdiu	coimdid
Vocative	coimdiu	coimdidL, coimdiu	coimdeda
Accusative	coimdidN	coimdidL, coimdiu	coimdeda
Genitive	coimded	coimded	coimdedN
Dative	coimdidL	coimdedaib	coimdedaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Derived terms

• coimdemnacht, coimdinecht
• coimdemnigidir

Descendants

• Irish: Coimdhe, Coimhdhe

Mutation

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

Further reading

• Pedersen, Holger (1913) Vergleichende Grammatik der keltischen Sprachen (in German), volume II, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, →ISBN, page 102
• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “coimdiu”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language