adcobra

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Old Irish

Etymology

Deadjectival from ad- +‎ cobar (desiring).

From Proto-Indo-European *kwep- (wish). Cognate with Latin cupiō (wish), Sanskrit कुप्यति (kupyati, be moved, excited, agitated), Old Church Slavonic кꙑпѣти (kypěti, to boil), Lithuanian kūpė́ti (to boil).

Pronunciation

Verb

ad·cobra (prototonic ·accobra, verbal noun accobar)

  1. to wish, want, desire

For quotations using this term, see Citations:adcobra.

Conjugation

Complex, class A I present, s preterite, a subjunctive
active passive
singular plural singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
present indicative deut. ad·cobraim ad·cobrai ad·cobra; asin·chobra (with infixed pronoun in-) ad·cobrat
prot. ·accobri ·accobra
imperfect indicative deut. ad·cobrinn ad·cobrad, ath·cobrad
prot.
preterite deut. ad·cobair
prot.
perfect deut. ad·rochabair ad·rochobursam
prot.
future deut.
prot.
conditional deut.
prot.
present subjunctive deut. ad·cobra ad·cobrat
prot. ·accobra
past subjunctive deut. ad·cobrinn ad·cobrad
prot.
imperative
verbal noun accobar
past participle
verbal of necessity

Descendants

  • Middle Irish: accobraid

Mutation

Mutation of adcobra
radical lenition nasalization
ad·cobra ad·chobra ad·cobra
pronounced with /-ɡ(ʲ)-/

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 25

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