conmidethar

Old Irish

Etymology

From com- +‎ midithir.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /konˈmʲi.ðʲə.θəɾ/
  • (Blasse) [konˈmʲi.ðʲe.θaɾ]
  • (Griffith) [konˈmʲi.ðʲə.θəɾ]

Verb

con·midethar (verbal noun commus)

1. to be competent, be able
2. to rule, govern

Conjugation

Complex, class B II present, suffixless preterite, s future, s subjunctive, deponent

		active						passive
		singular			plural			singular	plural
		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
present indicative	deut.			con·midethar; cota·mmidethar (with infixed pronoun da-)
	prot.
imperfect indicative	deut.
	prot.
preterite	deut.			ɔ·midir			ɔ·midir
	prot.
perfect	deut.	ɔ·ammadar		ɔ·ammidir, con·amidir			ɔ·aimthitar	con·aimes
	prot.
future	deut.			con·miastar
	prot.
conditional	deut.
	prot.
present subjunctive	deut.	ɔ·mesar	con·meser	ɔ·mestar
	prot.			·coimmestar
past subjunctive	deut.			cota·coimsed (with infixed pronoun da-)
	prot.
imperative			ɔmitti
verbal noun		commus
past participle		cuimse
verbal of necessity

Related terms

• coimdiu

Mutation

Mutation of con·midethar

radical	lenition	nasalization
con·midethar	con·midethar pronounced with /β̃ʲ-/	con·midethar

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), “con·midethar”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Pedersen, Holger (1913), Vergleichende Grammatik der keltischen Sprachen [Comparative Grammar of the Celtic Languages] (in German), volume II, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, →ISBN, page 578