cummae

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• cumme

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkume/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Celtic *kombēsman, from *kom- (“with”) + *bēsman (“a blow”).

Noun

cummae n

1. verbal noun of con·ben
2. shape, form, appearance

Inflection

Neuter io-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative
Vocative
Accusative
Genitive
Dative
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

• Irish: cuma

Etymology 2

From Proto-Celtic *kom-smiyos, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱom (“beside, with, by”) + *sem- (“one, as one”).

Adjective

cummae

1. similar, alike (with fri or ocus)
   • 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. 20^c25

     Níta chumme-se friusom.

     I am not like them.

Derived terms

• cummatu

Adverb

cummae

1. equally, in the same way

Mutation

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

Further reading

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