adcumaing

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Old Irish

Etymology

From in- +‎ com- +‎ ·icc.

Verb

ad·cumaing (prototonic ·ecmaing)

  1. to strike
  2. to happen
  3. to happen to be

For quotations using this term, see Citations:adcumaing.

Usage notes

  • The prototonic third-person singular present is commonly used in absolute position to introduce an event that happened, regardless of whether the event happened in the present or past, even when normally the deuterotonic would be used there.
  • In the sense "happen to be", the subject is encoded as an infixed object pronoun.

Inflection

For the preterite, an s-preterite is used in the sense to strike, while in the sense to happen, reduplicated preterites tend to be used.

Complex, class B I present, reduplicated and s preterite, s subjunctive
active passive
singular plural singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
present indicative deut. ad·cumaing
prot. ·ecmaing
imperfect indicative deut. ad·coimged
prot.
preterite deut. ad·comchus ad·cáemnacair; atom·chomnaic (with infixed pronoun dom-); ad·comaing ad·comcisset
prot. ·ecmaingsem
perfect deut.
prot.
future deut.
prot.
conditional deut.
prot.
present subjunctive deut.
prot. ·ecmai
past subjunctive deut.
prot.
imperative
verbal noun
past participle
verbal of necessity

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutation of adcumaing
radical lenition nasalization
ad·cumaing ad·chumaing ad·cumaing
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.

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