comarbus

Old Irish

Etymology

From comarbbae (“heir, successor”) (from Proto-Celtic *kom- + *orbos (“heir, inheritor”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃erbʰ- (“to change ownership”)) + -us.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkoṽarbus/

Noun

comarbus m (genitive comarpsa, no plural)

1. heritage, inheritance, patrimony
   • 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. 9^a14

     Bed a{d}thramli .i. gaibid comarbus for n-athar et intamlid a béssu.

     Be pl fatherlike, i.e. take your father’s heritage and imitate his manners

Declension

Masculine u-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	comarbus	—	—
Vocative	comarbus	—	—
Accusative	comarbusN	—	—
Genitive	comarpsoH, comarpsaH	—	—
Dative	comarbusL	—	—
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

• Irish: comharbas

Mutation

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

Further reading

• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “comarbus”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language