comalnaithir

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• comallaid

Etymology

comlann +‎ -aithir

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈko.β̃əl̪.n̪ə.θʲəɾʲ/
  • (Blasse) [ˈko.β̃al̪.n̪ɪ.θʲɪɾʲ]
  • (Griffith) [ˈko.β̃əl̪.n̪ɨ.θʲɨɾʲ]

Verb

comalnaithir (conjunct ·comalnathar or ·comalnadar, verbal noun comalnad)

1. to fulfill (a task, duty, promise)
   • 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. 2^c10

     ní dunaib hí fo·daimet a n‑imdibe colnide tantum mani comolnatar a n‑imdibe rúnde uitiorum

     not to those who suffer the carnal circumcision only unless they fulfill the mystical circumcision of vices

2. to observe (a law, command)

For more quotations using this term, see Citations:comalnaithir.

Inflection

Simple, class A I present, s preterite, f future, a subjunctive, deponent

		active						passive
		singular			plural			singular	plural
		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
present indicative	abs.
	conj.			·comalnathar; ·comalnadar	·comalnammar		·comalnatar; ·comolnatar
	rel.
imperfect indicative
preterite	abs.
	conj.					·comalnisid
	rel.
perfect	deut.					ro·comalnisid			ro·comallada
	prot.
future	abs.
	conj.
	rel.
conditional								·comallaibthe
present subjunctive	abs.						comalnit (nondeponent form)
	conj.			·comalnathar; ·comalnadar	·comalnammar		·comalnatar; ·comolnatar
	rel.
past subjunctive
imperative
verbal noun
past participle
verbal of necessity

Descendants

• Middle Irish: comaillid
  • Irish: comhaill

Mutation

Mutation of comalnaithir

radical	lenition	nasalization
comalnaithir	chomalnaithir	comalnaithir pronounced with /ɡ-/

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

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