ocmad

Old Irish

Etymology

From oc (“at”) +‎ buith (“being”).

Noun

ocmad f (genitive ocmaide)

1. verbal noun of ocu·bí: touching
   • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 39^a10

     .i. cid cuit a ocmaide nammá.

     i.e. even as to touching it only.

Inflection

Feminine ā-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ocmadL	—	—
Vocative	ocmadL	—	—
Accusative	ocmaidN	—	—
Genitive	ocmaideH	—	—
Dative	ocmaidL	—	—
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
ocmad	unchanged	n-ocmad
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), “ocmad”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language