comroircnech

Old Irish

Etymology

From comrorcun (“error, mistake”) (from con·rerortatar (“they have made a mistake”), from the root of orcaid (“to kill”)), + -ach (adjective).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈkoṽrorʲɡʲnʲex]

Adjective

comroircnech

1. erroneous
   • c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 26^b7

     De dliguth trá inna n-il-toimdden sin, is de gaibthi “igitur”; quasi dixisset “Ní fail ní nád taí mo dligeth-sa fair i ndegaid na comroircnech.”

     Of the law then, of those many opinions, it is thereof that he recites “igitur”; as if he had said, “There is nothing which my law does not touch upon after the erroneous ones.

Declension

o/ā-stem
Singular	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	comroircnech	comroircnech	comroircnech
Vocative	comroircnig* comroircnech**
Accusative	comroircnech	comroircnig
Genitive	comroircnig	comroircnige	comroircnig
Dative	comroircnech	comroircnig	comroircnech
Plural	Masculine	Feminine/neuter
Nominative	comroircnig	comroircnecha
Vocative	comroircnechu comroircnecha†
Accusative	comroircnechu comroircnecha†
Genitive	comroircnech
Dative	comroircnechaib
Notes	*modifying a noun whose vocative is different from its nominative **modifying a noun whose vocative is identical to its nominative † not when substantivized

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
comroircnech	chomroircnech	comroircnech 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), “comroircnech”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language