comair
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Old Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Uncertain. Perhaps a Welsh loanword. Cognate with Welsh ar gyfair (“opposite”), Breton e-keñver (“opposite”).[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Preposition
[edit]comair (with genitive)
- in front of
- c. 850, glosses on the Second Epistle of Peter, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, p. 713, line 28[1], 93b12:
- cain ata brad comair caich
- is not the Judgment before every one?
- c. 850, glosses on the Second Epistle of Peter, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, p. 713, line 28[1], 93b12:
- in the company of (with i)
- Synonym: i lleth
- c. 760 Blathmac mac Con Brettan, published in "A study of the lexicon of the poems of Blathmac Son of Cú Brettan" (2017; PhD thesis, National University of Ireland Maynooth), edited and with translations by Siobhán Barrett, stanza 23
- †Nond babair† níbar toirsich
hi comair for móethloingsich,
coimdiu gréine gile glé,
oirdnidiu in fócarthae- (?) ye were not sorrowful
in the company of your tender exile,
the lord of the clear bright sun,
most eminent the outlaw.
- (?) ye were not sorrowful
Descendants
[edit]Mutation
[edit]Old Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
comair | chomair | comair pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/ |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References
[edit]- ^ Vendryes, Joseph (1987) “comair”, in Lexique Étymologique de l'Irlandais Ancien [Etymological lexicon of Old Irish] (in French), volume C, Dublin, Paris: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, page C-163
Further reading
[edit]- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “comair”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language