coimdiu

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Old Irish

Etymology

From *kommedūs, an agent noun to the verb con·midethar (“to rule”).[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

coimdiu m (genitive coimded)

  1. lord, master
    Synonym: tigerna
    • 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. 27c9
      Níbo in tain no·mbeid ar súil tantum do·gneith toil far coimded.
      It must not be when you pl are seen (by him) only that you do your master’s will.
    • 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. 65d13
      .i. co n-eperthae as comdiu dia rígain in rí.
      And it should be said that the king is a master to his queen.
  2. (Christianity) the Lord

Declension

Masculine t-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative coimdiu coimdidL, coimdiu coimdid
Vocative coimdiu coimdidL, coimdiu coimdeda
Accusative coimdidN coimdidL, coimdiu coimdeda
Genitive coimded coimded coimdedN
Dative coimdidL coimdedaib coimdedaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Irish: Coimdhe, Coimhdhe

Mutation

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

References

  1. ^ Schumacher, Stefan, Schulze-Thulin, Britta (2004) Die keltischen Primärverben: ein vergleichendes, etymologisches und morphologisches Lexikon (Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft; 110) (in German), Innsbruck: Institut für Sprachen und Literaturen der Universität Innsbruck, →ISBN, page 482

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